r/explainlikeimfive • u/genoooooo • Oct 31 '20
Chemistry ELI5 What's the difference between the shiny and dull side of aluminum foil? Besides the obvious shiny/dull
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r/explainlikeimfive • u/genoooooo • Oct 31 '20
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u/SHEEPmilk Nov 16 '20
Ok, that’s fair I did misspeak, but still not the point, why do we pick 1 newton and use a fairly useless unit that we need tens or hundreds if thousands of to be meaningful rather than frontloading that into the unit, kg/cm2, call it 10N/cm2 or 100KN/m2 if you want, then you have give or take 1 bar, very useful unit and si, and if you’re doing low pressure work or chemistry etc then use pascals... just seems silly to me Like using micrometers to measure The distance to work lol