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?
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?
Flo
drew