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  2. Vial - Wikipedia

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    A vial can be tubular, or have a bottle-like shape with a neck. The volume defined by the neck is known as the headspace. The English word "vial" is derived from the Greek phiale, [2] meaning "a broad flat container". [3] Comparable terms include the Latin phiala, Late Latin fiola and Middle English fiole and viole.

  3. Volume - Wikipedia

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    Capacity is the maximum amount of material that a container can hold, measured in volume or weight. However, the contained volume does not need to fill towards the container's capacity, or vice versa. Containers can only hold a specific amount of physical volume, not weight (excluding practical concerns).

  4. Void ratio - Wikipedia

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    where is the void ratio, is the porosity, V V is the volume of void-space (gases and liquids), V S is the volume of solids, and V T is the total (or bulk) volume. This figure is relevant in composites , in mining (particular with regard to the properties of tailings ), and in soil science .

  5. Liquid - Wikipedia

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    A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a nearly constant volume independent of pressure. It is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, gas, and plasma), and is the only state with a definite volume but no fixed shape.

  6. Vacuum - Wikipedia

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    The word vacuum comes from Latin 'an empty space, void', noun use of neuter of vacuus, meaning "empty", related to vacare, meaning "to be empty".. Vacuum is one of the few words in the English language that contains two consecutive instances of the vowel u.

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  8. Approximate measures - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] The mouthful was still a unit of liquid measure during Elizabethan times. [6] The principal Egyptian standards from small to large were the ro, hin, hekat , and khar.) [ 7 ] Because of the lack of official definitions, many of these units will not have a consistent value.

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