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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 41. Chapters: Boats and rafts made of plastic bottles, Bottling companies, Glass bottles, Wine bottle, Beer bottle, Baby bottle, Bottle wall, Bottle opener, Cott, Aluminium bottle, Fizz keeper, SIGG, Milk bottle, A-Treat Bottling Company, Britvic, Plastiki, Charles J. Moore, Junk raft, White Rock Beverages, Bottle tops, Stanley bottle, Two-liter bottle, Fiasco, Spray bottle, Son of Town Hall, Bottle cap, Water bottle, Natrona Bottling Company, The Bottle, Alabama, Bottle crate, Boylan Bottling Company, Brooklyn Bottling Group, Knox Glass Bottle Company, Jamnica, The Bottle Factory Outing, Anchor bottler, Catawissa Bottling Company, Bota bag, Dr Pepper Snapple Bottling Group, Sealed bottles, Low plastic water bottle, Sipper water bottle, Carinate, Gladstone Springhouse and Bottling Plant, Bridge spouted vessel, Bottle recycling, Bologna bottle, Carolina Beverage, Wet Planet Beverages, Blowmolding machine, Glass onion. Excerpt: A wine bottle is a bottle used for holding wine, generally made of glass. Some wines are fermented in the bottle, others are bottled only after fermentation. They come in a large variety of sizes, several named for Biblical kings and other figures. The standard bottle contains 750 ml, although this is a relatively recent development. Wine bottles are usually sealed with cork, but screw-top caps are becoming popular, and there are several other methods used to seal a bottle. Side-by-side comparison of champagne bottles. (L to R) On ladder: magnum, full, half, quarter. On floor: Balthazar, Salmanazar, Methuselah, JeroboamThe chart below expresses the sizes of various wine bottles in multiples relating to a standard bottle of wine, which is 0.75 litres (0.20 U.S. gal; 0.16 imp gal) . * For many years, the U.S. standard (non-metric) wine and liquor bottle was the "fifth," meaning one-fifth of a U.S. gallon, or 2...