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From: rwt@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Rainer Thonnes)
Subject: Re: degrees Celsius
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In article <AF21642D9668204E14@ehrice.his.com>,
ehrice@his.com (Edward Rice) writes:
> 
> That makes the "spice-measure" one-fifth of a teaspoon, and unless those
> teaspoons are pretty enormous, I can pinch just about one-fifth of the
> contents of one.  Might be a little hard with a /very/ fine powder, I
> admit.
> 
> So, we have a discrepancy.  A cubic centimeter would be more like a small
> bouillon cube, right?

Right, but bouillon "cubes" do tend to come in a variety of shapes, never
mind sizes.  If you can't picture a cm, nor hence a cc, just think
of the cube as being two thirds of an inch from corner to corner across
the space diagonal.  That's a little over 2% out, so it's near enough.
