Re: UNSC fleet carrier design

At 10:13 PM -0400 9/22/00, Nyrath the nearly wise wrote:
>
>	Yes, we thought of that.
>	However, (keeping in mind that I haven't actually
>	tried) it seems to me that while this method
>	will be more accurate, it may not be as simple.
>
>	It's *hard* to accurately measure tiny amounts
>	of water.  Especially if one does not have access to
	accurate lab equipment.
>	Many of my miniatures are too wide to fit in a narrow
>	gradated cylinder.  And the wider the cylinder,
>	the closer spaced the gradations have to be.

It all depends on how close you actually *need* to be. Try the 
filling a larger, ungraduated cylinder (hey ! I'm an ungraduated 
biped ! wait, am I proud of this ?) to the brim and measuring the 
runoff method.

>
>	And have you recently priced pan balances capable
>	of measuring to the nearest gram?

Demand for those  seems to have skyrocketed in the past few 
decades...  My high school lost 16 tripple-beam balances in one raid. 
The rest of chemistry and all of AP physics sucked real hard.
-- 

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