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The wine gallon, which some sources relate to the volume occupied by eight medieval merchant pounds of wine, was at one time defined as the volume of a cylinder 6 inches deep and 7 inches in diameter, i.e. 6 in × (3 + 1 / 2 in) 2 × π ≈ 230.907 06 cubic inches.
With the adoption of the Queen Anne wine gallon of 231 cubic inches in 1706 the tun approximated the volume of a cylinder with both diameter and height of 42 inches. [nb 3] These were adopted as the standard US liquid gallon and tun. When the imperial system was introduced in 1824 the tun was redefined in the UK and colonies as 210 imperial ...
[nb 2] Note that a 252-gallon tun of wine has a mass of approximately 2060 pounds, [4] between a short ton (2000 pounds) and a long ton (2240 pounds). The tun is approximately the volume of a cylinder with both diameter and height of 42 inches, as the gallon was originally a cylinder with diameter of 7 inches and height of 6.
A gas cylinder quad, also known as a gas cylinder bundle, is a group of high pressure cylinders mounted on a transport and storage frame. There are commonly 16 cylinders, each of about 50 litres capacity mounted upright in four rows of four, on a square base with a square plan frame with lifting points on top and may have fork-lift slots in the ...
The Winchester bushel is the volume of a cylinder 18.5 in (470 mm) in diameter and 8 in (200 mm) high, which gives an irrational number of approximately 2150.4202 cubic inches. [4] The modern American or US bushel is a variant of this, rounded to exactly 2150.42 cubic inches, less than one part per ten million less. [ 5 ]
In North America, local delivery trucks with an average cylinder size of 3,000 US gallons (11 m 3), fill up large cylinders that are permanently installed on the property, or other service trucks exchange empty cylinders of propane with filled cylinders.
The 1707 British statute defines the wine gallon as 231 cubic inches (3,790 cm 3) – e.g. a cylinder 7 inches (178 mm) in diameter and 6 inches (152 mm) high, [nb 1] c. 3.785 litre – and was used to measure the volume of wine and other commercial liquids such as cooking oils and honey. [4]
One US gallon (3.79 litres) of gas in an F-style can A group of 25 kg (55 lb) liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders in Malta. A fuel container is a container such as a steel can, bottle, drum, etc. for transporting, storing, and dispensing various fuels.