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2. Wine cork - Wikipedia

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   A wine corks is a stopper used to seal a wine bottle. ... Simple wines are commonly 38 millimetres (1.5 in) long, medium aging wines (the most popular size) are 44 ...

3. Wine bottle - Wikipedia

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   The chart below [6] lists the sizes of various wine bottles in multiples relating to a standard bottle of wine, which is 0.75 litres (0.20 US gal; 0.16 imp gal) (six 125 mL servings). The "wineglassful"—an official unit of the apothecaries' system of weights —is much smaller at 2.5 imp fl oz (71 mL ).

4. Laboratory rubber stopper - Wikipedia

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   A laboratory rubber stopper or a rubber bung or a rubber cork is mainly used in chemical laboratories in combination with flasks and test tube and also for fermentation in winery. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Generally, in a laboratory , the sizes of rubber stoppers can be varied up to approximately 16 sizes and each of it is specific to certain type of ...

5. Crown cork - Wikipedia

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   The crown cork (also known as a crown seal, crown cap or just a cap), the first form of bottle cap, was invented by William Painter in 1892 in Baltimore. The company making it was originally called the Bottle Seal Company, but it changed its name with the almost immediate success of the crown cork to the Crown Cork and Seal Company .

6. Cork (material) - Wikipedia

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   Harvesting of cork from the forests of Algeria, 1930. Cork is a natural material used by humans for over 5,000 years. It is a material whose applications have been known since antiquity, especially in floating devices and as stopper for beverages, mainly wine, whose market, from the early twentieth century, had a massive expansion, particularly due to the development of several cork-based ...

7. Barrel - Wikipedia

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   Barrel has also been used as a standard size of measure, referring to a set capacity or weight of a given commodity. For example, in the UK and Ireland, a barrel of beer refers to a quantity of 36 imperial gallons (160 L; 43 US gal), and is distinguished from other unit measurements, such as firkins , hogsheads , and kilderkins . [ 7 ]