Kerbside Motors is no more

Henry A Harper III hah at alumni.rice.edu
Wed Feb 2 18:41:09 EST 2005


And this is a reasonable assumption because blood is mostly water and (ever
so conveniently) the density of water just happens to be 1.00 g/cc (or mL).
For anyone not paying attention in high school chemistry class :)

> By assuming the density of blood to be 1 g/mL.  This is commonly done in
> medical calculations.  In the old days the unit would have been
> reported as
> 0.08 milligrams per cent (mg/100 ml of blood)
>
> At 06:06 PM 2/2/2005, Richard J Lebens wrote:
> >I hate to keep posting about this reminding Phil of his plight but, how
> >do you convert grams (a mass) to liters (a volume)?
> >
> >--- Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In metric, there are no conversions necessary... 80 mg/100 ml = .08%
>



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