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my understanding is that american's do not empty 1-2 kilogrammes of dishwasher salt into a special salt compartment of their dishwashers? as a european i take pride in emptying a 1-2 kilogramme box of dishwasher salt into a special salt compartment of my dishwasher to contribute to the effective washing of my dishes
several times per year i purchase a large box (1-2 kilogrammes) of dishwasher salt for the dishwasher that goes into a special salt compartment below the sump (sump is a lovely word that is seldom used except when talking about dishwashers)
noone has ever questioned if you could just buy 1-2 kilogrammes of table salt for slightly cheaper and pour that into the special compartment. because you have to use dishwasher salt. and that's okay
@hazel the manual for mine is really really explicit that table salt is too granular and will corrode the shit out of the machine
I'm afraid an average American person needs to think how much is 1-2 kilograms.
It's about 2-4 lbs, that's about half a stone (or less) or 35-70 oz.
Or about 1/30th of a firkin.
@Theriac @deusfigendi @hazel @jetton Or about 300 barn megaparsecs.
@Theriac @_thegeoff @hazel @jetton I'm afraid bushel and hogshead are volumes not weights.
Or did you calculate the density of dishwasher salt? 
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ask yourself how much a liter weighs
@Theriac @_thegeoff @hazel @jetton
I asked ChatGPT, it thinks it's about 1.3kg
@Theriac @_thegeoff @hazel @jetton
You asked about the weight of dishwasher salt relative to its volume. Dishwasher salt's weight depends on its density, typically around 1.2 to 1.5 grams per cubic centimeter. So, a liter of dishwasher salt weighs approximately 1.2 to 1.5 kilograms, depending on its density.
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Not sure if you're serious about ChatGPT, but:
water density can vary with temperature but is generally calculated to be 1ml = 1g.
The metric system was intended to have interchangeable units of measure so the calculation for conversion is as follows:
ρ = 1000 kg/m3
where it's assumed the water is at 4 degrees and pure.
That aside the reason I'm posting weird measurements is because I'm poking fun.
@Theriac @_thegeoff @hazel @jetton
Yea fine but we're talking about dishwasher salt, not about water, aren't we?
@deusfigendi @Theriac @hazel @jetton Yeah, the barn megaparsec calculation was density based.
@hazel I'm not American and this is literally the first time I've ever heard of dishwasher salt. Then again, we only had a dishwasher in the house for a few years.
@hazel it never occurred to me as an American who has lived in a house that had water that was salt "softened" that you could just ...do that but per appliance. That is seems like a better solution. Do you also do this with your washer for laundry? Or does the salt thing serve both appliances?
@hazel like citric acid salts? I run an empty load with that every month-ish, but dunno who else does.