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  2. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; ... Avoirdupois is a system of mass based on a pound of 16 ounces, ... = 453.592 37 kg: mark: ≡ 8 oz t

  3. Pound (mass) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    On a larger scale, perhaps for institutional cookery, an Imperial gallon is eight Imperial pints (160 imp fl oz, 4.546 litres) whereas the US gallon is eight US pints (128 US fl oz, 3.785 litres). The metric system was officially adopted in the UK, for most purposes, in the 20th century and both imperial and metric are taught in schools and ...

  5. Avoirdupois - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 16 oz quarter (qr) 25 ≈ 11.34 kg 25 lb short hundredweight (cwt) 100 ≈ 45.36 kg

  6. English units - Wikipedia

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    15 oz tower = 6750 gr ≈ 437.4 g London/Mercantile pound 15 oz troy = 16 oz tower = 7200 gr ≈ 466.6 g Mercantile stone 12 lb L ≈ 5.6 kg Butcher's stone 8 lb ≈ 3.63 kg Sack 26 st = 364 lb ≈ 165 kg The carat was once specified as four grains in the English-speaking world.

  7. Ounce - Wikipedia

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    Bullion coins are the most common products produced and marketed in troy ounces, but precious metal bars also exist in gram and kilogram (kg) sizes. (A kilogram bullion bar contains 32.151 troy ounces.) For historical measurement of gold, a fine ounce is a troy ounce of pure gold content in a gold bar, computed as fineness multiplied by gross ...

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    California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom asked state lawmakers Monday for an additional $25 million in funding to cover the cost of legal battles he expects to have with President-elect Donald ...

  9. Troy weight - Wikipedia

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    One-troy-ounce (480 gr; 31 g) samples of germanium, iron, aluminium, rhenium and osmium A Good Delivery silver bar weighing 1,000 troy ounces (83 troy pounds; 31 kg) Troy weight is a system of units of mass that originated in the Kingdom of England in the 15th century [ 1 ] and is primarily used in the precious metals industry.