{"id":742,"date":"2014-03-18T18:36:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T23:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/?p=742"},"modified":"2015-05-18T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T20:38:21","slug":"weight-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/weight-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Weight of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Water weighs&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p><strong>8.345 pounds per gallon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A pound is 16 ounces.\u00a0 If water was 8 pounds per gallon, a gallon of water would weigh 128 ounces.<\/p>\n<p>A cup is 8 fluid ounces.\u00a0 Two cups is a pint, and a quart is two pints.\u00a0 A quart = 8 * 4 = 32 fluid ounces.\u00a0 A gallon is 4 quarts, therefore a gallon = 4 * 32 = 128 fluid ounces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Therefore, one fluid ounce of water approximately weighs one ounce.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The actual number is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>1.04 oz \/ fl oz<\/strong><\/span>, assuming that the discrepancy is due to our accuracy of measurement improving over time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Likewise, a pint of water (2 cups, or 16 fl oz) weighs about 1 pound.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is similar to the metric standard, where 1cc of water = 1ml = 1g.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water weighs&#8230; 8.345 pounds per gallon. A pound is 16 ounces.\u00a0 If water was 8 pounds per gallon, a gallon of water would weigh 128 ounces. A cup is 8 fluid ounces.\u00a0 Two cups is a pint, and a quart is two pints.\u00a0 A quart = 8 * 4 = 32 fluid ounces.\u00a0 A gallon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-science","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1672,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions\/1672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justinparrtech.com\/JustinParr-Tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}