cc / ml ???

doesn't water take up the most space at 4C (rather than 99C)?

note that your metal ruler and glass flasks will also expand with temperature increases ;-)

No. Its density is the greatest at just slightly less than 4C, which means that a given mass of water occupies the *least* volume at that temperature.

In the *liquid* phase, a given mass of water occupies the *greatest* volume at

As pointed out by the originator Sodium Hydroxide not water !! @ 4° C

Stephen SG

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| >doesn't water take up the most space at 4C (rather than 99C)? | | No. Its density is the greatest at just slightly less than 4C, which means | that a given mass of water occupies the *least* volume at that temperature. | | In the *liquid* phase, a given mass of water occupies the *greatest* volume at | 100C (just before it boils).

Doesn't it depend upon your merchant? After all, I encountered a couple of signs indicating "1 lb per lb" in a grocery store yesterday--presumably to distinguish themsleves from merchants with "3/4 lb per lb" :)

hawk

Yes it is. A litre of wine becomes less in volume around about dinner time.

Of course. A cc is obviously the space outlined by three mutually perpendicular rays of light in 1/300,000,000 of a second. But only in a vacuum, so maybe you can't use it to measure the wine. ;-)

You guys better stick to either wine making or wine drinking. The time light takes to traverse a _centi_meter is 1/29979245800 seconds, or approximately 3.3x10e-11 seconds.

Those decimal errors can cause you big problems in winemaking. I've read about that sort of thing here more than once - usually when someone adds 10x as much sulfite as he should have. :^(

Tom S

Tom,

LOL! You're absolutely right: one should stick to one activity or the other. This being said as I sit here with a glass of my 2001 Vignoles Traminette.

Your point is well taken, though. Measure twice, cut once. And that's only in woodworking, not important stuff like winemaking.

Happy New Year!

Is that one for rec.crafts.distilling?

Measures twice. Measures twice more. Another two measures...