Comment on Are metric measurements like decameters and hectometers ever used?

maxwisecracks@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Jedi@bolha.forum ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  decimeter is a good measure because one cubic decimeter (1 dm³) equals one liter ( 1L )

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  • gigachad@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    *of water

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    • Tvkan@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, you’re thinking of a kilogram. A liter and 10dm³ are identical.

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      • gigachad@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Haha obviously, too early in the morning ;)

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      • satai@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        1dm^3

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    • Mkengine@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, volume dimensions are independent of what a specific volume is filled with.

      1 liter of water is 1 cubic decimeter of water just as 1 liter of air is 1 cubic decimeter of air.

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• Lord_Logjam@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m a chemistry teacher so I regularly use dm³

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  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Isn’t that just a liter?

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• paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Decimeter is used in older American botany books for some reason. Only place I’ve ever seen it

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