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picasa

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MM lb/yr production rate?? - Sounds like a unit that I have not come across before. Is it true that 1 MM lb = 1,000,000 lbs.?
 
Roman numeral M = 1000. MM is way yo signify one-thousand 1000s... or one million. It's not a uniformly used term, but I see it in the waterworks world too.

Steve Braune
Tank Industry Consultants
 
The heat transfer arena consistently uses MMBTUH for millions of BTUs per hour.

Larry
 
I've seen the MM my entire career. It's a normal for expressing a plant capacity or flow rates.

NozzleTwister
Houston, Texas
 
A warning - in different disciplines, I've seen both M and MM used for million. For example, computer storage is expressed in MB for megabytes, not in MMB for million bytes.

Larry
 
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