This section is from the book "Safe Building", by Louis De Coppet Berg. Also available from Amazon: Code Check: An Illustrated Guide to Building a Safe House.
Material. | |
Ashes........... | 59 |
Asphali........... | 150 |
Butter........................ | 60 |
Camphor........ | 63 |
Charcoal......... | 23 |
Coal solid....... | 93 |
" loose.................... | 54 |
Coke............ | 50 |
Cork.......... | 15 |
Cotton in bales....... | 20 |
Eat........ | 58 |
Gunpowder..... | 56 |
Hay in bales....... | 17 |
Isinglass...... | 70 |
Lead, red......... | 560 |
Paper........ | 55 |
Material. | Weight |
Peat......................... | 85 |
Petritied wood..... | 145 |
Pitch........................ | 75 |
Plumbago.......... | 131 |
Pumice-tone........ | 66 |
Resin............. | 68 |
Rock crystal......... | 172 |
Rubber............ | 62 |
Salt.......................... | 134 |
Saltpeire......... | 130 |
Snow, fresh fallen........... | 6 |
" solid................... | 20 |
Sugar.............. | 82 |
Sulphur.......... | 125 |
Tiles............... | 115 |
Water........... | 63 |
 
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