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 "name": "Steel food cans: soup, vegetable, tuna, #2, #2½, #10, coffee",
 "kind": "standard",
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 "group": "Found & household materials",
 "year": null,
 "question": "What are the dimensions of a standard soup can?",
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  "steel",
  "soup can",
  "cylinder",
  "stirling",
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  "soup can dimensions",
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   "Condensed soup (Campbell's size, 211 × 400): Ø68.3 × 101.6 mm. Standard vegetable can (300 × 407): Ø76.2 × 112.7 mm. 303 × 406: Ø81.0 × 111.1. #2 (307 × 409): Ø87.3 × 115.9. Tuna (307 × 113): Ø87.3 × 46.0. #2½ (401 × 411): Ø103.2 × 119.1. #10 (603 × 700): Ø157.2 × 177.8.",
   "Steel (tinplate) is 0.18–0.22 mm, magnetic, solderable and takes a flame: it is the hot-end cylinder for the bigger can engines where aluminium would soften. The double seams stand 1.2 mm proud of the body; a printed cap must clear Ø(body + 2.4).",
   "Opened with a safety (side-cut) opener the rim stays smooth and the lid can go back on as a loose cap; a top-cut opener leaves a sharp edge: deburr with a file before a diaphragm goes near it."
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     159.6,
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     130.2,
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     132.6,
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   "q": "What are #10 can dimensions?",
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