Crith (Noun)
Meaning
The weight of a liter of hydrogen (at 0 centigrade and 760 millimeters pressure).
Classification
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.
Examples
- I couldn't find information about 'crith' as a unit of measurement, but after researching further, I found information about a 'crith' being an old unit of measurement for volume and it seems 'crith' is roughly equivalent to the weight of a liter of hydrogen at 0 centigrade and 760 millimeters pressure.
- The merchant had to convert between crith and kilograms for the purposes of the large scale sale.
- Scientists used the measurement of a crith in several comparisons for their experiments on gases.
- A crith of gaseous helium is not equivalent to a crith of gaseous hydrogen.
- A document on gas volumes had an exhaustive section defining one crith.