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Old Sep 19, 2007 | 11:17 am
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MarcPHL
 
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Originally Posted by SmilingBoy
You are right, but just imagine a cylinder 1 mm high and 35 cm diameter.

SmilingBoy.
Great example a bag that is 1x35cm will not fit into a quart sized bag.
Assuming you meant 1x35mm (without measuring to verify a quart sized bag would accommodate--and again assuming that any of this makes sense--perhaps it's been determined that 50mm is the Critical Diameter®™. Constraining the size of the container solves the problem.

Now, I don't know how this prevents such scenarios as buying something airside which support Critical Diameter®™, or checking such a container with binary components that are known to dissolve a barrier on a predictable schedule, etc.
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