Relative density, the Glossary

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1. 94 relations: Albuminuria, Aluminium, American Society of Brewing Chemists, Analytical balance, API gravity, Archimedes, ASTM International, Atmosphere of Earth, Baumé scale, Beer measurement, Bitumen, Blood, Brine, Brix, Buoyancy, Caesium-137, Capillary action, Carbon dioxide, Celsius, Cement, Centimetre–gram–second system of units, Copper, Cubic centimetre, Cubic metre, Density, Depleted uranium, Diabetes insipidus, Dimensionless quantity, Displacement (fluid), Ethanol, Fluid, Fluid mechanics, Gas pycnometer, Gemology, Gemstone, Geologist, Geometric series, Glass, Glycosuria, Gold, Graduated cylinder, Gram, Graphite, Gravitational acceleration, Gravity (alcoholic beverage), Gravity of Earth, Ground glass joint, Heavy crude oil, Helium, Hydrometer, ... Expand index (44 more) »

2. Dimensionless quantities
3. Mass density

Albuminuria

Albuminuria is a pathological condition wherein the protein albumin is abnormally present in the urine.

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Aluminium

Aluminium (Aluminum in North American English) is a chemical element; it has symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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American Society of Brewing Chemists

The American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) is a professional organization of scientists and technical professionals in the brewing, malting, and allied industries.

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Analytical balance

An analytical balance (or chemical balance) is a class of balance designed to measure small mass in the sub-milligram range.

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API gravity

The American Petroleum Institute gravity, or API gravity, is a measure of how heavy or light a petroleum liquid is compared to water: if its API gravity is greater than 10, it is lighter and floats on water; if less than 10, it is heavier and sinks.

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Archimedes

Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.

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ASTM International

ASTM International, formerly known as American Society for Testing and Materials, is a standards organization that develops and publishes voluntary consensus technical international standards for a wide range of materials, products, systems and services.

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Atmosphere of Earth

The atmosphere of Earth is composed of a layer of gas mixture that surrounds the Earth's planetary surface (both lands and oceans), known collectively as air, with variable quantities of suspended aerosols and particulates (which create weather features such as clouds and hazes), all retained by Earth's gravity.

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Baumé scale

The Baumé scale is a pair of hydrometer scales developed by French pharmacist Antoine Baumé in 1768 to measure density of various liquids.

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Beer measurement

When drinking beer, there are many factors to be considered.

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Bitumen

Bitumen is an immensely viscous constituent of petroleum.

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Blood

Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.

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Brine

Brine (or briny water) is water with a high-concentration solution of salt (typically sodium chloride or calcium chloride).

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Brix

Degrees Brix (symbol °Bx) is a measure of the dissolved solids in a liquid, and is commonly used to measure dissolved sugar content of an aqueous solution.

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Buoyancy

Buoyancy, or upthrust, is a gravitational force, a net upward force exerted by a fluid that opposes the weight of a partially or fully immersed object.

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Caesium-137

Caesium-137, cesium-137 (US), or radiocaesium, is a radioactive isotope of caesium that is formed as one of the more common fission products by the nuclear fission of uranium-235 and other fissionable isotopes in nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

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Capillary action

Capillary action (sometimes called capillarity, capillary motion, capillary rise, capillary effect, or wicking) is the process of a liquid flowing in a narrow space in opposition to or at least without the assistance of any external forces like gravity.

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Carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide is a chemical compound with the chemical formula.

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Celsius

The degree Celsius is the unit of temperature on the Celsius temperature scale "Celsius temperature scale, also called centigrade temperature scale, scale based on 0 ° for the melting point of water and 100 ° for the boiling point of water at 1 atm pressure." (originally known as the centigrade scale outside Sweden), one of two temperature scales used in the International System of Units (SI), the other being the closely related Kelvin scale.

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Cement

A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together.

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Centimetre–gram–second system of units

The centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS or cgs) is a variant of the metric system based on the centimetre as the unit of length, the gram as the unit of mass, and the second as the unit of time.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Cubic centimetre

A cubic centimetre (or cubic centimeter in US English) (SI unit symbol: cm3; non-SI abbreviations: cc and ccm) is a commonly used unit of volume that corresponds to the volume of a cube that measures 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm.

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Cubic metre

The cubic metre (in Commonwealth English and international spelling as used by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures) or cubic meter (in American English) is the unit of volume in the International System of Units (SI).

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Density

Density (volumetric mass density or specific mass) is a substance's mass per unit of volume. Relative density and density are mass density.

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Depleted uranium

Depleted uranium (DU; also referred to in the past as Q-metal, depletalloy or D-38) is uranium with a lower content of the fissile isotope 235U than natural uranium.

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Diabetes insipidus

Diabetes insipidus (DI), alternately called arginine vasopressin deficiency (AVP-D) or arginine vasopressin resistance (AVP-R), is a condition characterized by large amounts of dilute urine and increased thirst.

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Dimensionless quantity

Dimensionless quantities, or quantities of dimension one, are quantities implicitly defined in a manner that prevents their aggregation into units of measurement. Relative density and Dimensionless quantity are Dimensionless quantities.

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Displacement (fluid)

In fluid mechanics, displacement occurs when an object is largely immersed in a fluid, pushing it out of the way and taking its place.

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Ethanol

Ethanol (also called ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, drinking alcohol, or simply alcohol) is an organic compound with the chemical formula.

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Fluid

In physics, a fluid is a liquid, gas, or other material that may continuously move and deform (flow) under an applied shear stress, or external force.

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Fluid mechanics

Fluid mechanics is the branch of physics concerned with the mechanics of fluids (liquids, gases, and plasmas) and the forces on them.

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Gas pycnometer

A gas pycnometer is a laboratory device used for measuring the density—or, more accurately, the volume—of solids, be they regularly shaped, porous or non-porous, monolithic, powdered, granular or in some way comminuted, employing some method of gas displacement and the volume:pressure relationship known as Boyle's Law.

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Gemology

Gemology or gemmology is the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstone materials.

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Gemstone

A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewelry or other adornments.

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Geologist

A geologist is a scientist who studies the structure, composition, and history of Earth.

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Geometric series

In mathematics, a geometric series is the sum of an infinite number of terms that have a constant ratio between successive terms. Relative density and geometric series are ratios.

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Glass

Glass is an amorphous (non-crystalline) solid.

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Glycosuria

Glycosuria is the excretion of glucose into the urine.

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Gold

Gold is a chemical element; it has symbol Au (from the Latin word aurum) and atomic number 79.

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Graduated cylinder

A graduated cylinder, also known as a measuring cylinder or mixing cylinder, is a common piece of laboratory equipment used to measure the volume of a liquid.

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Gram

The gram (originally gramme; SI unit symbol g) is a unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one thousandth of a kilogram.

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Graphite

Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.

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Gravitational acceleration

In physics, gravitational acceleration is the acceleration of an object in free fall within a vacuum (and thus without experiencing drag).

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Gravity (alcoholic beverage)

Gravity, in the context of fermenting alcoholic beverages, refers to the specific gravity (abbreviated SG), or relative density compared to water, of the wort or must at various stages in the fermentation.

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Gravity of Earth

The gravity of Earth, denoted by, is the net acceleration that is imparted to objects due to the combined effect of gravitation (from mass distribution within Earth) and the centrifugal force (from the Earth's rotation).

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Ground glass joint

Ground glass joints are used in laboratories to quickly and easily fit leak-tight apparatus together from interchangeable commonly available parts.

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Heavy crude oil

Heavy crude oil (or extra heavy crude oil) is highly viscous oil that cannot easily flow from production wells under normal reservoir conditions.

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Helium

Helium (from lit) is a chemical element; it has symbol He and atomic number 2.

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Hydrometer

A hydrometer or lactometer is an instrument used for measuring density or relative density of liquids based on the concept of buoyancy.

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Ideal gas

An ideal gas is a theoretical gas composed of many randomly moving point particles that are not subject to interparticle interactions.

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International System of Units

The International System of Units, internationally known by the abbreviation SI (from French Système international d'unités), is the modern form of the metric system and the world's most widely used system of measurement.

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International Temperature Scale of 1990

The International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90) is an equipment calibration standard specified by the International Committee of Weights and Measures (CIPM) for making measurements on the Kelvin and Celsius temperature scales.

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Iron

Iron is a chemical element.

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Jolly balance

The Jolly balance is an instrument for determining specific gravities.

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac (6 December 1778 – 9 May 1850) was a French chemist and physicist.

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Kilogram

The kilogram (also kilogramme) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI), having the unit symbol kg.

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Lead

Lead is a chemical element; it has symbol Pb (from Latin plumbum) and atomic number 82.

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Mass

Mass is an intrinsic property of a body.

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Mechanical equilibrium

In classical mechanics, a particle is in mechanical equilibrium if the net force on that particle is zero.

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Mercury (element)

Mercury is a chemical element; it has symbol Hg and atomic number 80.

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Mineral

In geology and mineralogy, a mineral or mineral species is, broadly speaking, a solid substance with a fairly well-defined chemical composition and a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form.

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Mineralogy

Mineralogy is a subject of geology specializing in the scientific study of the chemistry, crystal structure, and physical (including optical) properties of minerals and mineralized artifacts.

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Molar mass

In chemistry, the molar mass (or molecular weight) of a chemical compound is defined as the ratio between the mass and the amount of substance (measured in moles) of any sample of the compound.

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Mole (unit)

The mole (symbol mol) is a unit of measurement, the base unit in the International System of Units (SI) for amount of substance, a quantity proportional to the number of elementary entities of a substance.

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Must

Must (from the Latin vinum mustum) is freshly crushed fruit juice (usually grape juice) that contains the skins, seeds, and stems of the fruit.

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Must weight

Must weight is a measure of the amount of sugar in grape juice (must) and, hence, indicates the amount of alcohol that could be produced if it is all fermented to alcohol, rather than left as residual sugar.

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Newton (unit)

The newton (symbol: N) is the unit of force in the International System of Units (SI).

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Oak

An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.

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Ochroma

Ochroma pyramidale, commonly known as the balsa tree, is a large, fast-growing tree native to the Americas.

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Olea capensis

Olea capensis, the black ironwood, is an African tree species in the olive family Oleaceae.

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Olive oil

Olive oil is a liquid fat obtained by pressing whole olives, the fruit of Olea europaea, a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin, and extracting the oil.

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Order of approximation

In science, engineering, and other quantitative disciplines, order of approximation refers to formal or informal expressions for how accurate an approximation is.

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Oscillating U-tube

The oscillating U-tube is a technique to determine the density of liquids and gases based on an electronic measurement of the frequency of oscillation, from which the density value is calculated.

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Osmium

Osmium is a chemical element; it has symbol Os and atomic number 76.

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Particle mass density

The particle mass density or particle density of a material (such as particulate solid or powder) is the mass density of the particles that make up the powder. Relative density and particle mass density are mass density.

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Pascal (unit)

The pascal (symbol: Pa) is the unit of pressure in the International System of Units (SI).

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Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

The Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) is the national metrology institute of the Federal Republic of Germany, with scientific and technical service tasks.

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Pound (force)

The pound of force or pound-force (symbol: lbf, sometimes lbf) is a unit of force used in some systems of measurement, including English Engineering units and the foot–pound–second system.

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Ratio

In mathematics, a ratio shows how many times one number contains another. Relative density and ratio are ratios.

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Rho

Rho (uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ or; ρο or label) is the seventeenth letter of the Greek alphabet.

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Room temperature

Room temperature, colloquially, denotes the range of air temperatures most people find comfortable indoors while dressed in typical clothing.

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Salt

In common usage, salt is a mineral composed primarily of sodium chloride (NaCl).

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Standard atmosphere (unit)

The standard atmosphere (symbol: atm) is a unit of pressure defined as Pa.

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Stopper (plug)

A stopper, bung, or cork is a cylindrical or conical closure used to seal a container, such as a bottle, tube, or barrel.

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Surface tension

Surface tension is the tendency of liquid surfaces at rest to shrink into the minimum surface area possible.

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Syrup

In cooking, syrup (less commonly sirup; from شراب;, beverage, wine and sirupus) is a condiment that is a thick, viscous liquid consisting primarily of a solution of sugar in water, containing a large amount of dissolved sugars but showing little tendency to deposit crystals.

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Thermometer

A thermometer is a device that measures temperature (the degree of hotness or coldness of an object) or temperature gradient (the rates of change of temperature in space).

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United States customary units

United States customary units form a system of measurement units commonly used in the United States and most U.S. territories, since being standardized and adopted in 1832.

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Urine

Urine is a liquid by-product of metabolism in humans and in many other animals.

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Vodka

Vodka (wódka; водка; vodka) is a clear distilled alcoholic beverage.

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Volume

Volume is a measure of regions in three-dimensional space.

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Water

Water is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula.

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Wort

Wort is the liquid extracted from the mashing process during the brewing of beer or whisky.

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See also

Dimensionless quantities

• Dimensionless quantity
• List of dimensionless quantities
• Refractive index
• Relative change
• Relative density
• Strain (mechanics)

Mass density

• Area density
• Bone density
• Bulk density
• Density
• Density of air
• Heavy liquid
• Lifting gas
• Mass concentration (chemistry)
• Maximum density
• Neutral buoyancy
• Nuclear density
• Orthobaric density
• Partial specific volume
• Particle mass density
• Relative density
• Stratified flows

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_density

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