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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
Well technically, a drop isn't a unit of measurement. A drop is an arbitrary, small amount of water. We have drip lines that run 10 drops per ml and 60 drops per ml. The largest raindrop that was ever recorded was just under a ml having a radius of 8.8mm, and that is close to a ml, which is one cubic centimeter. Salt water technically has more surface tension than rain water, so a sea drop could be as large as a ml and still have enough surface tension to maintain form.
I'm surprised you went after the accuracy of the drops vs ml and not the drop vs the accuracy of measuring the viruses and microbes. I mean, really, exactly 10 million viruses and 1 million bacteria. I'm sure it is more like 12,568,462 average viruses per ml, but I guess it is just a rough estimate to illustrate a point.
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First off,
- that's fer maken me go look up a bunch of stuff about "drops", that I really didn't need to know.
Second off, I thought we were talken about "standard saline medical drops" (I just made that up -
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In which:
"Standardized droplet sizes in medicine
Further information: Drop (unit)
In medicine, this property is used to create droppers and IV infusion sets which have a standardized diameter, in such a way that 1 millilitre is equivalent to 20 drops."
Since WIKI told me that, its gotta be true!
Third off, I didn't comment about the other stuff because that is waaay above my pay grade.
how many drops in a pint pf beer?