enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Ancient Greek units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greek_units_of...

    45: 8 ⁄ 11: 2 ... [4] The Attic liquid measures were: Attic measures of liquid capacity ... 60 minae 25.86 kg (57.0 lb) 37.8 kg (83 lb) Time ...

  3. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_weights_and_measures

    The system can be traced back to the measuring systems of the Hindus [18]: B-9 and the ancient Egyptians, who subdivided the hekat (about 4.8 litres) into parts of 1 ⁄ 2, 1 ⁄ 4, 1 ⁄ 8, 1 ⁄ 16, 1 ⁄ 32, and 1 ⁄ 64 (1 ro, or mouthful, or about 14.5 ml), [19] and the hin similarly down to 1 ⁄ 32 (1 ro) using hieratic notation, [20] as ...

  4. Orders of magnitude (mass) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(mass)

    2.4 × 10 −9 kg US RDA for vitamin B12 for adults [45] 10 −8: 10 −8 kg: Speculated approximate lower limit of the mass of a primordial black hole: 1.5 × 10 −8 kg: US RDA for vitamin D for adults [46] ~2 × 10 −8 kg Uncertainty in the mass of the International Prototype of the Kilogram (IPK) (±~20 μg) [47] 2.2 × 10 −8 kg

  5. Dealing with water weight? Why it's happening and 7 ways to ...

    www.aol.com/news/dealing-water-weight-why...

    "The majority of the adult body is water, up to 60% of your weight," says Schnoll-Sussman, adding that the average person's weight can fluctuate one to five pounds per day due to water.

  6. Human body weight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight

    Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.

  7. Mass versus weight - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_versus_weight

    The mass of an object is a measure of the object’s inertial property, or the amount of matter it contains. The weight of an object is a measure of the force exerted on the object by gravity, or the force needed to support it. The pull of gravity on the earth gives an object a downward acceleration of about 9.8 m/s 2. In trade and commerce and ...

  8. Dutch units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_units_of_measurement

    scheepslast – 4,000 Amsterdam pond = 1,976.4 kg (2.1786 short tons; 1.9452 long tons) Meaning literally a "load", a last was essentially the equivalent of 120 cubic feet (3.398 m 3) of shipping space. [2] A last in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in the 17th century was about the same as 1,250 kg, becoming later as much as 2,000 kg. [3]

  9. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_units_of_measurement

    40 sers = 1 maund (= 34 kg 8 hg 3 dag 5g 9 dg 2.6 cg /34.835926 kilograms) 1 rattī = 1.75 grains (= 0.11339825 gram/113 milligrams 398 1/4 micrograms 4 attograms ) (1 grain = 0.064799 gram) From 1833 the rupee and tolā weight was fixed at 180 grains, i.e. 11.66382 grams. Hence the weight of 1 maund increased to 37.324224 kilogram. [3]