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The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by al_borland »

kelnos wrote: post #120
al_borland wrote: post #57

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With all of those examples, the actual temperature doesn’t really matter. For drinking and bathing, people go by feel. In the kitchen, the freezer makes water freeze, and the stovetop will make it boil into steam, but exact temperatures aren’t really relevant here either. The same goes for ironing clothes, the iron just does it. When I think about where explicit temperatures are needed in the home, the oven and therm…

> For drinking and bathing, people go by feel. Yes, and people who grew up with Celsius feel in Celsius, and people who grew up with Fahrenheit (like myself) feel in Fahrenheit. Stop trying to make some sort of determination of what's logical or reasonable here. Neither one is more or less logical than the other for day-to-day layperson use; anyone can "feel best" in any scale if they were taught it at a young age an…

When I said drinking and bathing go by feel, I meant that they aren’t measuring the temperature, so the units are irrelevant.

When drawing a bath, I don’t get out a thermometer, I just stick my hand in the water and feel if it’s comfortable. C, F, or K… who cares? It doesn’t come into play.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by lstodd »

pseudohadamard wrote: post #141
jarenmf wrote: post #76

most needs for such water are for calibration of instruments - many labs run stable isotopes measurements which has many applications from tracing how plants use water to measuring your metabolic base rate .. so the main use case it to calibrate instruments because it's really difficult to have an absolute measurement of stable isotope ratios from first principles - and the ratios are so small you typically express t…

Just remember that if you decide to brew up a cup from VSMOW you have to do it in strict conformance to ISO 3103.

I wonder what's the standard for ethanol and, therefore, vodka.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by skinfaxi »

kalium-xyz wrote: post #138
VTimofeenko wrote: post #128

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Shows $508 for 2 cartons, so 254 per. NY has probably most expensive smokes, ranging $140-155 per carton

Wont the state tax apply to the NIST ones as well?

I checked by almost completing checkout and no state tax was charged. I would be surprised if the states could tax federal goods.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by lstodd »

zinckiwi wrote: post #21
Guvante wrote: post #15

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You want numbers to be understandable and K produces illogical numbers. (There is a reason it is common to drop the century when talking about years, humans are less skilled at numbers over 100) And I know temperatures in Fahrenheit go higher but it is common to refer to Phoenix as "over 100" even when it's high can peak over 120.

That’s 02025 thinking.

You mean 0o2025 that is 1045AD?

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by woadwarrior01 »

fnord77 wrote: post #135
inigyou wrote: post #52

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You can centrifuge it. Heavier molecules move closer to the bottom. Repeat until you reach the desired purity. You need shitloads of ordinary water to extract a liter of heavy water. And I'd be surprised if there's any superheavy water in that, because tritium radioactively decays. Fun fact: Heavy water is slightly toxic to humans. If you only drank heavy water, you'd die as it shifts the chemical reactions in your b…

they're making medicines now with deuterium to alter the half-life

Deuterium or tritium? Deuterium is a stable isotope and does not decay.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by bragr »

skinfaxi wrote: post #163
kalium-xyz wrote: post #138

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Wont the state tax apply to the NIST ones as well?

I checked by almost completing checkout and no state tax was charged. I would be surprised if the states could tax federal goods.

Generally states can't. I wonder if what could technically trip you up is the lack of tax stamps. But can you get in trouble for having unstamped cigarettes? I'd think generally no.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by Ekaros »

bananamogul wrote: post #124
Timpanzee wrote: post #56

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You only think it makes sense for humans because it makes sense for you, where you live the same way you feel changing a thermostat by 1F is perfect but 1C is too much: that’s true for you, not universally. Fahrenheit functionally requires you to be biased in order for it to seem like a good system.

Actually, 1 degree of Fahrenheit is the amount of temperature change a typical human can connect. It's a human-calibrated scale. Though why 32F instead of 0F for frozen water...I have no idea.

Because lower point is temperature of certain chemical reaction. And upper end is body temperature... Oh wait... Yeah it is bad scale.

Re: The most official water costs $120k a gallon

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Post by bensyverson »

Duanemclemore wrote: post #113

NIST Cigarettes are a mere $204 per carton. Depending on what state you live in, that's not bad these days. https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=1196a&cclcl=e...

On the one hand, they say "for experimental purposes only," but on the other hand, hey, no cancer warning!
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