11-04-2017, 10:59 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-05-2017, 05:41 PM by KnifeGrinders.)
That's a fascinating analogy, Jan!
DE safety razors were first picked by BESS as a standard for a minimal measurable unit because they are the sharpest edge reproducibly manufactured and commonly known.
Following SEM studies, came realization that it is also next to the limit practically achieved of a steel blade with the finest honing, at or under 0.1 micron.
Thanks to Jan, we now also see it as an edge past the limit discernible by a human eye in the visible light of the shortest wavelength.
Nowadays for us it is not just 50 gram-force, but also 0.1 micron edge apex in the order of extreme ultraviolet wavelength.
With all the enriched meaning, it has shaped into a BESS unit that is more than just a number of grams necessary to sever a test media.
An edge score on the BESS scale tells us not only of gram-force, but also of the edge width and something else, and therefore shouldn't it be more appropriate to name the score BESS Unit rather than grams or g-f?
50 BESS or 300 BESS etc, as we already do in Australia.
DE safety razors were first picked by BESS as a standard for a minimal measurable unit because they are the sharpest edge reproducibly manufactured and commonly known.
Following SEM studies, came realization that it is also next to the limit practically achieved of a steel blade with the finest honing, at or under 0.1 micron.
Thanks to Jan, we now also see it as an edge past the limit discernible by a human eye in the visible light of the shortest wavelength.
Nowadays for us it is not just 50 gram-force, but also 0.1 micron edge apex in the order of extreme ultraviolet wavelength.
With all the enriched meaning, it has shaped into a BESS unit that is more than just a number of grams necessary to sever a test media.
An edge score on the BESS scale tells us not only of gram-force, but also of the edge width and something else, and therefore shouldn't it be more appropriate to name the score BESS Unit rather than grams or g-f?
50 BESS or 300 BESS etc, as we already do in Australia.
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