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  2. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    10.16 cm = 1.016 dm – 1 hand used in measuring height of horses (4 inches) 12 cm = 1.2 dm – diameter of a compact disc (CD) (= 120 mm) 15 cm = 1.5 dm – length of a Bic pen with cap on; 22 cm = 2.2 dm – diameter of a typical association football (soccer ball) 30 cm = 3 dm – typical school-use ruler length (= 300 mm)

  3. Richter scale - Wikipedia

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    The Richter scale [1] (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". [3]

  4. List of measuring instruments - Wikipedia

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    Atmospheric pressure micrometer: small distances multimeter: electrical potential, resistance, and current nephoscope: to measure the speed and direction of clouds nephelometer: particle in a liquid odometer: distance travelled ohmmeter: electrical resistance opisometer: lengths of arbitrary curved lines orchidometer: testicle size in male ...

  5. Solvent - Wikipedia

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    Reichardt's dye, a solvatochromic dye that changes color in response to polarity, gives a scale of E T (30) values. E T is the transition energy between the ground state and the lowest excited state in kcal/mol, and (30) identifies the dye. Another, roughly correlated scale (E T (33)) can be defined with Nile red.

  6. Compression ratio - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the static compression ratio is 10:1, and the dynamic compression ratio is 7.5:1, a useful value for cylinder pressure would be 7.5 1.3 × atmospheric pressure, or 13.7 bar (relative to atmospheric pressure). The two corrections for dynamic compression ratio affect cylinder pressure in opposite directions, but not in equal strength.

  7. Slide rule - Wikipedia

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    For example, aligning the rightmost 1 on the C scale with 2 on the LL2 scale, 3 on the C scale lines up with 8 on the LL3 scale. To extract a cube root using a slide rule with only C/D and A/B scales, align 1 on the B cursor with the base number on the A scale (taking care as always to distinguish between the lower and upper halves of the A scale).

  8. Precipitation - Wikipedia

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    The standard way of measuring rainfall or snowfall is the standard rain gauge, which can be found in 10 cm (3.9 in) plastic and 20 cm (7.9 in) metal varieties. [83] The inner cylinder is filled by 2.5 cm (0.98 in) of rain, with overflow flowing into the outer cylinder.

  9. Snow - Wikipedia

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    0.1–0.8 g/cm 3: Mechanical properties ... the most important of which is the low-pressure area, which typically incorporate warm and cold fronts as part of their ...