Talk:Saybolt universal viscosity

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the proposal was move per request.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 12:54, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

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Saybolt Universal Second → Saybolt universal second –

This is a unit, and units as far as I know are not capitalised (except for a proper name such as Saybolt within).

Per WP:MOSCAPS ("Wikipedia avoids unnecessary capitalization") and WP:TITLE. In addition, WP:MOSCAPS says that a compound item should not be upper-cased just because it is abbreviated with caps. Lowercase will match the formatting of related article titles. Tony (talk) 08:22, 1 August 2012 (UTC)

• Support – overwhelming evidence in sources is that it's not a proper, and is usually lowercase. Dicklyon (talk) 19:56, 4 August 2012 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

examples

please provide a short list of some representative oils and their sus values...

If it helps anyone working on that, I found this chart linked in a related discussion.

Independent of that, it'd be nice to know a little more about these "calibrated tubes" - at least the dimensions (the article mentions that the two diameters are related, but not what either of them are. Also, is the SUS/SFS value the point where the first of the oil crosses the finish line, the point when the last sticky drop drips out, or the point when 60 cm³ has made it through the tube out of an unspecified amount being poured in? Viscous minds want to know. 173.239.222.136 (talk) 02:55, 15 June 2017 (UTC)