View Single Post
  #15  
Old 10-23-2002, 10:27 AM
alanscott's Avatar
alanscott
alanscott is offline
Posting Guru
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Western Colorado USA
Posts: 2,321
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
How much does a gallon gasoline weigh?

Oy! :-X23





>So you can use your hydrometer to find that most gasoline
>should be around SG~.68 which can be proven by
>42.5/62.4=.681 (specific gravity is the ratio of the
>density of a fluid to the density of water)
>water wieghs 62.4/7.48= 8.34 lbs/gallon
>8.34 * .68 = 5.67 lbs/gallon
>
>Don't beleive the numbers? Go out and test them, they're
>every bit as accurate as you can measure them.
>
>'77 F100, 302 (the aftermarket Prodigy), C4
>Cadet Second Lieutenant John F. Daly III
>South Carolina Corps of Cadets, The Citadel
>The TorqueKing
:-X23