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CorrectHorseBat 3 hours ago

So how does that explain I can take 10 100ml bottles and an empty 1l bottle through security but not 1 full 1l bottle?

WalterBright 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The same reason used for WA emissions inspections (since suspended). If your tailpipe emitted 99ppm of pollutants, you were good to go. If it emitted 100ppm, you had to get it fixed.

Good ole step functions.

opello an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You have to be able to fit those 10 100mL bottles into a single 1 quart resealable bag. At most you'd probably get about 9.46 of those 10 bottles in the bag but in practice it's fewer still.

1 US liquid quart is about 946.353 milliliters.

gambiting 44 minutes ago | parent [-]

>>1 US liquid quart is about 946.353 milliliters.

Why not just say 1 litre and have the same limit as the rest of the world.

opello 19 minutes ago | parent [-]

The surface level answer is "for Ronald Reagan reasons":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_Conversion_Act

gizzlon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can't, at least not where I live