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The stone or stone weight (abbreviation: st.) [1] is an English and British imperial unit of mass equal to 14 avoirdupois pounds (6.35 kg). [ nb 1 ] The stone continues in customary use in the United Kingdom and Ireland for body weight .
mmH 2 O ≈ 999.972 kg/m 3 × 1 mm × g 0 = 0.999 972 kgf/m 2 = 9.806 38 Pa: pascal (SI unit) Pa ≡ N/m 2 = kg/(m⋅s 2) = 1 Pa [34] pièze (mts unit) pz ≡ 1000 kg/m⋅s 2 = 10 3 Pa = 1 kPa pound per square foot: psf ≡ 1 lbf/ft 2: ≈ 47.880 26 Pa [33] pound per square inch: psi ≡ 1 lbf/in 2: ≈ 6.894 757 × 10 3 Pa [33] poundal per ...
The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [2] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton, producing a "short ton" of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a "long ton" of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).
The wool sack or woolsack (Latin: saccus lanae or lane) was standardized as 2 wey of 14 stone each, with each stone 12 + 1 ⁄ 2 merchants' pounds each (i.e. 350 merchants' pounds or about 153 kilograms), by the time of the Assize of Weights and Measures c. 1300. 12 such sacks formed the wool last.
Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property.
This template is intended to allow entry of imperial weights (Avoirdupois), measured in tons, hundredweights, quarters and/or pounds (ton, cwt, qr and/or lb) and provide a conversion into pounds and into tonnes (metric tons) or kilograms (if the first parameter is blank or zero).
Pounds Unit Stone kg 1 pound 1/14 0.453592 14 1 stone 1 6.35029 28 1 quarter 2 12.7006 112 1 hundredweight 4 50.8023 2240 1 long ton 80 1016.04 contains 2 arithmetic errors : in the Stone column : the 4 and 80 should be 8 and 160 .
10 12 petagram (Pg) 0.8–2.1 × 10 12 kg Global biomass of fish [114] 4 × 10 12 kg Global annual human food production [115] 4 × 10 12 kg World crude oil production in 2009 (3,843 Mt) [116] 5.5 × 10 12 kg A teaspoon (5 ml) of neutron star material (5000 million tonnes) [117] 10 13: 1 × 10 13 kg Mass of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko ...