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Old 05-13-2005, 04:28 AM
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A couple q's how much does 1 gallon of water weigh around 10 pounds???
How many pounds to a kilogram and finally how how many gallons of water would weigh 25.4 kilo's??
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A couple q's how much does 1 gallon of water weigh around 10 pounds???
How many pounds to a kilogram and finally how how many gallons of water would weigh 25.4 kilo's??
to convert pounds to KG multiply pounds by .4536 to get KG's

get your calculator out and do the math
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A couple q's how much does 1 gallon of water weigh around 10 pounds???
How many pounds to a kilogram and finally how how many gallons of water would weigh 25.4 kilo's??
ok I am going to assume you want it in US gal

so 1 US gal of fresh water weighs 8.345404 so sence salt water is more dense it will weigh 8.56lbs assuming a SG of 1.026. sence there are 2.204 lbs in one Kg... it would be 6.54 gal of water at a Sg of 1.026.

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