[LAD] twice as loud

[drew Roberts]

On Friday 23 July 2010 07:21:00 Florian Faber wrote:
> On 07/23/10 00:06, drew Roberts wrote:
> > Is some pepper dish twice as hot as another?
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> If you define 'hot' as 'amount of capsaicine', there is the Scoville scale.

I know of the scale, but does doubling the amount of capsaicin double 
the "heat"?

You can measure lots of things wrt sound and say one sound has double X units 
of the other, but does that make the loudness double?
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> Flo

drew