Claim · model-written summary
Measured and calculated surface areas agreed excellently for rubber truncated cones.
- Outcome
- measured and calculated surface arease0
- Qualifier
- excellent agreemente0
- Comparator
- rubber truncated conese0
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Verbatim
e0“Using stainless-steel spheres (diameter, 5–60 mm) or rubber truncated cones (mean diameter, 8–45 mm) revealed an excellent agreement between the measured and calculated surface areas.”
Title
Nondestructive Determination of Fruit Surface Area Using Archimedean Buoyancy
Grecia Hurtado; Patrick Lüdeke; Moritz Knoche HortScience 2020. doi:10.21273/hortsci15240-20
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- Method / resource Measured sphere surface area was slightly greater than calculated area.
- Method / resource Measured and calculated sphere areas differed by at most 1.7%.
- Method / resource Fruit surface area measurements were highly reproducible with cv 0.95%.
- Method / resource Increasing displacement steps decreased measurement variability.
- Method / resource Liquid surface tension did not significantly affect surface area measurements.
- Method / resource Subject wettability did not significantly affect surface area measurements.
- Method / resource Measured and calculated surface areas agreed excellently for stainless-steel spheres.
- Method / resource Measured tomato surface areas agreed excellently with geometric estimates.
- Method / resource Measured grape surface areas agreed excellently with geometric estimates.
- Method / resource Measured blueberry surface areas agreed excellently with geometric estimates.
- Method / resource Measured strawberry surface areas agreed excellently with geometric estimates.