HOW MANY DROPS SHOULD A TEASPOON HOLD?
How many drops should a teaspoon hold? This is an important matter when taking medicine, for if the teaspoon is too large one may take too much. The Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the British Standards Institution have been working together to produce new teaspoons and tablespoons holding, respectively, 60 minims (drops) and 240 minims, and to be stamped “medicine spoon,” The question arose because the British Standards Institute, some time ago, fixed the teaspoon measure at 100 minims and the tablespoon at 300 minims in order that these measures could be used when cooking with American recipes. But chemists pointed out that these new standard spoons might cause parents to take too much mediicne. A minim, or drop, is a measure of any kind of liquid. There are 76,800 drops in a gallon, but in a good-sized swimming bath, say, of 110,000 gallons capacity, there are a few more—B44B million or about, four times as many drops of water as there are people in the world. Some of our readers might like to work out how long it would take to empty such a swimming bath with a teaspoop.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 32, 13 December 1948, Page 5
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198HOW MANY DROPS SHOULD A TEASPOON HOLD? Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 32, 13 December 1948, Page 5
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