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The Oxford English Dictionary has a definition of "bag" as "A measure of quantity for produce, varying according to the nature of the commodity" and has quotations illustrating its use for hops in 1679, almonds in 1728 (where it is defined by weight as "about 3 Hundred Weight" i.e. 336 pounds (152 kg) in Imperial units) and potatoes in 1845 ...
In the American oil industry, a sack represents the amount of portland cement that occupies 1.15 cubic feet (8.6 US gal; 33 L), and in most cases weighs 94 pounds (43 kg). [8] Other uses in the US include the measurement by volume of salt, where one sack is 215 pounds (98 kg), cotton where one sack is 140 pounds (63.5 kg) and flour, where one ...
The following quantities are considered: length, area, volume, plane angle, solid angle, mass, ... bag (Portland cement) ≡ 94 lb av = 42.637 682 78 kg: barge:
Mass concrete is defined by American Concrete Institute Committee 207 as "any volume of concrete with dimensions large enough to require that measures be taken to cope with the generation of heat from the hydration of cement and attendant volume change to minimize cracking."
Volume of concrete in the Three Gorges Dam, the world's largest concrete structure 4.3 × 10 7: Volume of Aswan Dam: 9 × 10 7: Volume of gas required per day by India in 2005 1.01 × 10 8: Volume of the Grimsel reservoir: 1.73 × 10 8: Volume of Lake Baldegg, Switzerland 2.05 × 10 8: Volume of material excavated in the construction of the ...
The transatlantic alliance reached a milestone in 2024 when all non-U.S. NATO allies spent the 2% target on average for the first time.
Some SI units of volume to scale and approximate corresponding mass of water. To ease calculations, a unit of volume is equal to the volume occupied by a unit cube (with a side length of one). Because the volume occupies three dimensions, if the metre (m) is chosen as a unit of length, the corresponding unit of volume is the cubic metre (m 3).
Federico Arellano is a U.S. citizen and says three of his four children are too. He says the situation is a misunderstanding and that his family was misled before being deported.