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ruthyanna

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Gold and Cotton
« on: October 04, 2006, 12:56:01 PM »
Please help me...which is more heavy an ounce of cotton or an ounce of gold? if u can provide me the computation I would really appreciate it.
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Offline Alberto_Kravina

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Re: Gold and Cotton
« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2006, 01:27:56 PM »
Quote from: ruthyanna on October 04, 2006, 12:56:01 PM
Please help me...which is more heavy an ounce of cotton or an ounce of gold?
Are you kidding us ?  :P
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Re: Gold and Cotton
« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2006, 02:23:13 PM »
Quote from: Alberto_Kravina on October 04, 2006, 01:27:56 PM
Quote from: ruthyanna on October 04, 2006, 12:56:01 PM
Please help me...which is more heavy an ounce of cotton or an ounce of gold?
Are you kidding us ?  :P

The question is actually more complex than you think because Imperial units are the dumbest thing ever created.  The units of ounces for precious metals is different from the units of ounces for normal materials (which is different than the ounce for liquids).  See wikipedia for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce
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