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Now I am wondering are there any industrial processes that use a common commercial product as a standard? Coke, Guinness, etc all probably have exquisite quali
by 0cf8612b2e1e 10mo ago
Now I am wondering are there any industrial processes that use a common commercial product as a standard?
Coke, Guinness, etc all probably have exquisite quality control. Is it in the manual of any equipment, “congratulations on your new FooBar pH meter. To confirm the correct operation, a CokeCola should give a reading of X”
- Suppafly 10mo agoThe government has reference products that a lot of processes use. https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductList?categoryId=a0l3d0000005KqNAAU&cclcl=en_US https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductList?categoryId=a0l3d0000... one that gets mentioned occasionally on the internet is the peanut butter: https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=2387 https://shop.nist.gov/ccrz__ProductDetails?sku=2387
- 0cf8612b2e1e 10mo agoI was more imagining a completely pedestrian sourced sample. Those are likely large aggregate pools to minimize heterogeneity. Looking for something like, “Go to corner store, buy 12 pack canned CokeCola (with aspartame), dilute 1:10, measure”
- amiga386 9mo agoTo go down that rathole, here is Tom Scott talking about the NIST standard reference materials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJzi0BXcGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvJzi0BXcGI
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- analog31 10mo agoCoincidentally, Guinness had a role to play in the development of modern quality control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sealy_Gosset
- immibis 10mo agoDo we count the time some children measured the vitamin C in Ribena for a science fair, and discovered there wasn't any, despite high vitamin C being their main marketing point?
- ted_dunning 9mo agoI just looked that up. Great story!
- extraduder_ire 10mo agoSome of the most dimensionally accurate thickness aluminium foil you can buy is intended for cooking.
- qingcharles 9mo agoThis ISO amuses me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3103