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The koku (斛) is a Chinese-based Japanese unit of volume. 1 koku is equivalent to 10 to or approximately 180 litres (40 imp gal; 48 US gal), [a] [1] or about 150 kilograms (330 lb) of rice. It converts, in turn, to 100 shō and 1000 gō. [2]
Avoirdupois is a system of mass based on a pound of 16 ounces, while Troy weight is the system of mass where 12 troy ounces equals one troy pound. The symbol g 0 is used to denote standard gravity in order to avoid confusion with the (upright) g symbol for gram.
Cavan was reported in the late 19th century as a measure for rice equivalent to 98.28 litres. [4] Various references from the same period describe it as a unit of mass: for rice, 133 lb (about 60.33 kg); for cocoa, 83.5 lb, (about 37.87 kg) one source says on the average 60 kg for rice and 38 kg for cacao [5]). Other sources claim it was the ...
The pound or pound-mass is a unit of mass used in both the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.Various definitions have been used; the most common today is the international avoirdupois pound, which is legally defined as exactly 0.453 592 37 kilograms, and which is divided into 16 avoirdupois ounces. [1]
Each is equivalent to 20 hundredweight; however, they are long 51 kilograms (112 lb) or short hundredweight 45 kilograms (100 lb), respectively. Before the 20th century there were several definitions. Prior to the 15th century in England, the ton was 20 hundredweight, each of 108 lb, giving a ton of 2,160 pounds (980 kg).
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No equivalent in cubic inches is given in the statute, but later regulations specify it as 5,826 cubic inches. [4] Some products have a standard weight or volume that constitutes a barrel: Cornmeal, 200 pounds (91 kg) Cement (including Portland cement [5]), 4 cubic feet (113 L; 30 US gal) or 376 pounds (171 kg) [3]
In France it used to be defined as 100 livres (pounds), about 48.95 kg (108 lb), and has been redefined as 100 kg (mesures usuelles), thus called metric quintal with symbol qq. In Spain , the quintal is still defined as 100 libras , or about 46 kg (101 lb), but the metric quintal is also defined as 100 kg; [ 3 ] In Portugal a quintal is 128 ...