Amend German translation #125
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The German word 'Gran' refers to various old measures of weight ranging from about 62 to 65 mg. The English unit grain (or troy grain), on the other hand, is a well defined unit (exactly 64.79891 mg). So we should use the word 'Grain' in German to denote the Engish unit of measurement and thus avoid any ambiguity. Wikipedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gran_(Einheit)#Englisches_Grain) also uses 'Grain' for the English unit. (Not sure if Gran was chosen deliberately or if the missing i is just a typo).
The official symbol for the Technical atmosphere is "at", the symbol for the (standard) atmosphere (which we call physical atmosphere is German) is "atm". In the original English text and in most of the translstions, including the German one, the word atmosphere is abbreviated to Atm. This could cause confusion with the standard atmosphere whose symbol is atm. In order to avoid this possible confusion I thinks it's best to not abbreviate the word atmosphere to Atm and, to make it completely clear, add the official unit symbols. (Translations that don't abbreviate atmosphere to Atm, like the Russian or Italian ones, do not suffer from this ambiguity).
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Correct some typos and avoid ambiguities. Hopefully the latter don't appear to be hairsplitting to you.