On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:59:00 -0500, brian whatcott wrote:

Martin Gregorie wrote:
/snip/
I'm a traditional imprecise chemist by training and have a teaspoon
that says its 5ml, so I'd just use a moderately heaped one and call
that 8 grams.



Uh? 5 ml is a volume measurew, and 8 grams are a mass measu the
property that connects those measures is density.

Indeed, and although I have a measuring spoon set that marks a teaspoon
as 5ml I'm unconvinced that all teaspoons are 5ml.

A chemist is just bound to know what material is likely to weigh about a
gram per milliliter, isn't he?

My point was that we're talking 'kitchen chemistry', i.e. cookery, here
not something that requires high precision measurements made with
analytical balances.

...And what material might way 8 gram for 5 milliliters.... :-)

Something with an SG of 1.6, obviously. Oddly enough, sugar has a density
of near as dammit 1.6 .....


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