The cubic } feet, { } inches.
inch = .000700 } or { 1.211278 }
VII. _To Reduce English Cube Measure to French._
The English cube foot, }
or 1728 cubical inches } = 1427.4864 } French
The cubical inch = .8260 } cubical
The cube tenth = .0008 } inches.
3. _Measure of Capacity._
The Paris pint contains 58.145[63] English cubical inches, and the
English wine pint contains 28.85 cubical inches; or, the Paris pint
contains 2.01508 English pints, and the English pint contains .49617
Paris pints; hence,
To reduce the Paris pint to the English, }
multiply by } 2.01508.
To reduce the English pint to the }
Paris, divide by }
No. VI.
TABLE _of the Weights of the different Gasses, at 28 French inches, or
29.84 English inches barometrical pressure, and at 10 (54.5 ) of
temperature, expressed in English measure and English Troy weight._
Names of the Gasses. Weight of a Weight of a
cubical inch. cubical foot.
(A) qrs. oz. dr. qrs.
Atmospheric air .32112 1 1 15
Azotic gas .30064 1 0 39.5
Oxygen gas .34211 1 1 51
Hydrogen gas .02394 0 0 41.26
Carbonic acid gas .44108 1 4 41
(B)
Nitrous gas .37000 1 2 39
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