06-24-2006, 10:28 PM
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It was an attempt (influenced by the metric French system) to rationalise weights and volumes……
Where this became important was where you didn't have precision volume measing equipment, but you could accurately weigh an ounce and a pound.
Once you established the volume of water, you could mark the container, empty the water, fill it with the other liquid to be measured and have an accurate measure.
The first measure had to be water because water was the standard, ……..
Logic from another era.
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It sure was ethnocentric logic in the face of complete superiority from another era that we STILL haven’t gotten past in the US. 
Too bad the link to universality and availability of water stopped with that one hook into measurement classes. We have water that solidifies at 32 degrees, not 0, (because zero F was the coldest spot in Fahrenheit’s lab) and that vaporizes at 212, not 100.
It’s a good thing the concept of density was derived by someone using the metric system or we might well have the density of 1 being equal to the size of an acorn a chipmunk could pack into it cheek divided by 16. 
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