cubic gallons

[Jonathan Lighter]

Someone else called me on this off-thread, and I confessed to having had another of those pesky "senior moments."

But the desperate need for millions of gallons of cube-shaped water remains a mystery.

JL

"Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET> wrote:
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At 9/22/2005 11:10 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>If the city is producing cubic gallons so as to freeze them as giant
>ice cubes for giant drinks later, the question then would be just
>when the "cubic" gallon is measured, as the volume would contract
>somewhat when frozen.

The volume would increase somewhat when frozen, which is why ice
floats on water. (One of only a few liquids, I think, that expands
in the solid state.)

Joel


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