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2. Bag (unit) - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition of "bag" as "A measure of quantity for produce, varying according to the nature of the commodity" and has quotations illustrating its use for hops in 1679, almonds in 1728 (where it is defined by weight as "about 3 Hundred Weight" i.e. 336 pounds (152 kg) in Imperial units) and potatoes in 1845 ...

3. Sack (unit) - Wikipedia

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   In the American oil industry, a sack represents the amount of portland cement that occupies 1.15 cubic feet (8.6 US gal; 33 L), and in most cases weighs 94 pounds (43 kg). [8] Other uses in the US include the measurement by volume of salt, where one sack is 215 pounds (98 kg), cotton where one sack is 140 pounds (63.5 kg) and flour, where one ...

4. Portland cement - Wikipedia

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   Portland cement is the most common type of cement in general use around the world as a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco, and non-specialty grout. It was developed from other types of hydraulic lime in England in the early 19th century by Joseph Aspdin , and is usually made from limestone .

5. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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   [citation needed] In the concrete and petroleum industry, however, a bag of cement is defined as 94 lb (43 kg) because it has an apparent volume close to 1 cubic foot (28 litres). [61] When ready-mix concrete is specified, a "bag mix" unit is used as if the batching company mixes 5 literal bags of cement per cubic yard (or cubic metre) when a ...

6. Orders of magnitude (volume) - Wikipedia

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   Volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure 4.3 × 10 7: Volume of Aswan Dam: 9 × 10 7: Volume of gas required per day by India in 2005 1.01 × 10 8: Volume of the Grimsel reservoir: 1.73 × 10 8: Volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland 2.05 × 10 8: Volume of material excavated in the construction of the ...

7. Texas man hopes to reunite with family after they were ...

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   Federico Arellano is a U.S. citizen and says three of his four children are too. He says the situation is a misunderstanding and that his family was misled before being deported.

8. Mass concrete - Wikipedia

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   Mass concrete is defined by American Concrete Institute Committee 207 as "any volume of concrete with dimensions large enough to require that measures be taken to cope with the generation of heat from the hydration of cement and attendant volume change to minimize cracking."

9. Christian leader in Lebanon urges US, allies to intervene to ...

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   The leader of a Christian coalition and political party in Lebanon is calling on the U.S. and its Western allies to deploy troops to Lebanon to help the army dismantle Hezbollah.