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From: Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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Subject: Re: Why Moist Air Reduces Aerodynamic Lift (by James McGinn)
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2016 15:47:20 +1100
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On 17/01/2016 12:46 PM, James McGinn wrote:
> On Saturday, January 16, 2016 at 4:43:50 PM UTC-8, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> On 16/01/2016 1:10 PM, James McGinn wrote:
>>
>>> The best way to know the weight/volume of moist air is to measure it.
>>> Nobody ever has.
>>
>> That's a bizarre claim. How can you possibly know that?
>>
>> Anyway, it's not true, as you would have discovered if you'd bothered to
>> look.
>>
>> http://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/Density_of_moist_air.pdf
>>
>> Sylvia.
>
> That's density.  Pay attention.
>

They're measuring weight. They're then calculating density.

Sylvia.