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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 12 hours ago (6 children)

Maybe a weird aside, but what does this mean?

pushing fluid at 40 standard liters per minute.

Are there "liters" other than the 10cm x 10cm x 10cm definition?

[–] nahostdeutschland@feddit.org 18 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

To totally confuse you: The USA uses the "standard litre" while Europe uses "normal litre":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_litre_per_minute

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 7 hours ago

Thanks, you succeeded hahaha.

From what I'm reading there this is a measure of mass flow rate of gas, expressed as volume per minute at some standard volume and pressure. Which makes some sense, you need those two parameters to be fixed so you can measure mass by volume.

And then I realized the OP article uses it for a fluid 😂

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