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A 1-in-47 dilution of household bleach with water (1 part bleach to 47 parts water: e.g. one teaspoon of bleach in a cup of water, or 21 ml per litre, or 1 / 3 cup of bleach in a gallon of water) is effective against many bacteria and some viruses in homes. [33]
Lionel Phillips paid £300 cash and 500 on £1 shares for the Globe Reef and £600 for the Phoenix Reef paid in gold sovereigns at Shepherds Beer Hall in Gwelo where many business transactions were done in those days. The Globe and Phoenix Mining Company was incorporated on 18 October 1896 with a capital of £175,000 in £1 shares. [2]
On 7 April 1795, the gram was defined in France to be equal to "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube of one-hundredth of a meter, and at the temperature of melting ice". [125] For practical purposes though, a metallic reference standard was required, one thousand times more massive, the kilogram.
The Imperial gallon was based on the concept that an Imperial fluid ounce of water would have a mass of one Avoirdupois ounce, and indeed 1 g/cm 3 ≈ 1.00224129 ounces per Imperial fluid ounce = 10.0224129 pounds per Imperial gallon.
Growing the plants needed to produce 1 kg (2.2 lb) of roasted coffee in Africa, South America or Asia requires 26,400 litres (7,000 US gal) of water. [86] As with many other forms of agriculture, often much of this is rainwater, much of which would otherwise run off into rivers or coastlines, while much water actually absorbed by the plants is ...