Jeff Liebermann wrote:
To me the intuition is the other way around:
durometer = instrument, as in thermometer,
hygrometer ...
Do you measure temperature in units of
themometers? Do you measure humidity in units
of hydrometers?
I mean, "durometer" sounds like "thermometer",
"hydrometer", and so on (OK, it should be a "d"
in English), so to me, it sounds like
an instrument.
Also, one might wonder why they felt the need
to come up with a new unit for this at all!
Couldn't it be "how much power to penetrate" or
"how much power to reach a distance" or "how
long a distance for a certain power"... (I say
this without ever having used or even seen
a durometer so maybe it doesn't make sense.)
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