Talk:Pounds per square inch

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[edit] Improper move

This is a messed-up, improperly plural, copy and paste move, with most of the history left behind at Pound-force per square inch. See the revision history. Gene Nygaard 02:28, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Say what you want about leaving the history/discussion behind, but this is obviously the correct name for the page. "Pounds per square inch" gets 1,650,000 Google hits. "Pound-force per square inch" gets 969. That is a factor of about 1700. Ever heard of a landslide? Rracecarr 03:42, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I guess you're right that it should be pound per square inch not pounds per square inch. But pound-force doesn't belong. Rracecarr 03:47, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

It belongs enough so that it shouldn't have been moved without discussion. And in any case, it should have been properly moved with the move button, not by copy and paste. That improper move, besides leaving behind the history mentioned above, also left behind a talk page and its history at Talk:Pound-force per square inch, and that talk page doesn't discuss any such move either. Gene Nygaard 10:03, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Added after requested mass move related to singular/plural under discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions#RfC: Should titles of article on units of the form "X per Y" be singular or plural?. Gene Nygaard (talk) 10:12, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Pounds per square inch also includes a different and distinct unit which is not and should not be included in this article. Those lb/in² (for which lbf/in² is wrong and inappropriate), use the normal pounds as units of mass, not the pounds-force used in the units of pressure or stress which are the subject of this article.

Those other "pounds per square inch" which don't belong in this article are used, for example, in ballistic coefficient. Gene Nygaard (talk) 10:08, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Boiler pressure conversions

In the English speaking world, steam locomotive boiler pressures are normally expressed as x lb/in². In Europe, they are normally expressed as x kg/cm². Question is, how do you convert one to the other? Mjroots (talk) 08:58, 27 March 2008 (UTC)