ABSTRACT
In a 4:1 water-to-syrup proportioning ratio, as an example, where 4 liters of water and 1 liter of syrup are mixed, one would expect the resultant mixture of final beverage to be 5 liters. This, in fact, does not happen. The total volume of the two mixed liquids will be slightly less than the expected 5 liters volume. The shortfall in the expected volume is of a relatively very low order (and this is possibly the reason it is not actually picked up in water and syrup mixing operations in the factory, or even in the laboratory).
