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[LL - NY]

This wasn't a "this happens to be" circumstance. It was the original definition,
"1 ml of water at 4 degrees Celsius (it's densist temp at STP) is
defined as the mass of 1 gram". It has since changed to a more stable
sample, but it remains the whole concept of the measurement.

Sorry about your predicament, Phil.

LL - NY


On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 16:41:05 -0700, Henry A Harper III
<hah at alumni.rice.edu> wrote:
> 
> 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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