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Ship models: The dominant European size for die-cast ship models, most comprehensive range. 1:1200: 0.01 0.254 mm: Ship models: A British and American size for ship and harbour models. Airfix used to produce in this scale. 1:1000: 0.305 mm This is a scale used in Germany for pre-finished airliner models.
NMRA standard S-1.2 covers the popular model railway scales and S-1.3 defines scales with deep flanges for model railways with very sharp curves or other garden railway specific design features. In certain NMRA scales an alternative designation is sometimes used corresponding the length of one prototype foot in scale either in millimetres or in ...
liquid measure: US barrel: USbbl US bbl 31½ US gal used for liquids except for oil and beer (see the full list) 1.0 US bbl (120 L; 32 US gal; 26 imp gal) U.S.bbl U.S. bbl barrel: oilbbl bbl 42 US gal 1.0 bbl (0.16 m 3) US beer barrel: USbeerbbl (usbeerbbl) US bbl 1.0 US bbl (120 L; 31 US gal; 26 imp gal) U.S.beerbbl (usbeerbbl) U.S. bbl
1:18 scale is a traditional scale (ratio) for models and miniatures, in which 18 units (such as inches or centimeters) on the original is represented by one unit on the model. Depending on application, the scale is also called two third inch scale since 1 foot is represented by 2/3 of an inch.
Today's US teaspoon is equivalent to exactly 4.92892159375 ml, which is also 1 ⁄ 6 US fluid ounces, 1 + 1 ⁄ 3 US fluid drams, [5]: C-18 or 80 US minims. [5]: C-5 While pharmaceuticals are measured nowadays exclusively in metric units, fluid drams are still used to measure the capacity of pill containers.
Before standardization on specific gravity around the time of World War II the Baumé scale was generally used in industrial chemistry and pharmacology for the measurement of density of liquids. Today the Baumé scale is still used in various industries such as sugar beet processing , ophthalmics, starch industry, winemaking, industrial water ...
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In the U.K., the use of the fluid ounce as a measurement in trade, public health, and public administration was circumscribed to a few specific uses (the labelling of beer, cider, water, lemonade and fruit juice in returnable containers) in 1995, and abolished entirely in 2000, by The Units of Measurement Regulations 1994. [6]