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Slide 1: Varieties in Weighing Scales You weigh anything you want to buy or sell. What comes to the market for sales without its weight being mentioned on its cover? Right from the vegetables that we use daily to industrial goods like coal, iron, cement and other raw materials are weighed and then are marked according to their capacity and need before meeting the intended market. Anywhere we go… it is the weighing scale that acts as a main tool in measuring the weight of that particular good which needs to be processed. The variety in weighing scales comes up according to the use and need that is designated for. Each and every type of weighing scale has its own set of specialties, improvements and needs. The basic types of weighing scales are Floor Scales, Digital Scales talking scales and shipping scales, the uses and its functionalities as discussed in brief below… Floor Scales is one of the main kinds of weighing scales that are being used in homes hospitals and even at domestic market. This is one common type that can be found used widely and frequently almost anywhere you have the need to weigh. You can see that farmers go for such floor scales to determine the weight of the animals they grow. The floor Scale determines the weight of a particular object that is placed on top of it with the help of a spring that actually faces the pressure give by the mass of the object. In a floor scale, you can determine the weight of the body that is place on top of it through the reading which will be given in scale. You can even adjust the zero correction of the floor scale if needed. The main drawback of these floor scales is that, the accurate weight of the object cannot be determined and is subjected to eye level errors and other manual errors. Digital Scales are the ones that show the accurate mass of the object that is being weighed and trace it in the digital format, which is easy to read and determine. The digital scales are even useful as they don’t give a chance for any kind of manual errors while making the reading through scales. The measurements that are showed in the LED display are proper and do not need any secondary level scrutiny. These digitals scale can actually find out the weight to a to a portion of a unit of measure- this is a unique functionality that is not possible for a normal floor scale Talking Scales are the once that makes your work even easier. They tell you the exact weight of the object that you weight. They determine the weight of the object through a scale and pass the measurement to the user through the audio equipments. Shipping Scales are the ones that are used in shipping yard to determine the exact weight of the cargo which is shipped according to the government-certified measurement standards.