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  2. Paris inch - Wikipedia

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    [3] [4] The term for telescopes persisted even in the 20th century, with a telescope listed in the 1909 Sears Roebuck catalog of having 25 lignes diameter aperture, or about 56 mm (5.6 cm). [5] The measurement SPI (Stitches per inch) for leather pricking irons and stitch marking wheels also commonly uses the Paris inch instead of the Imperial inch.

  3. Traditional French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    It was 1 ⁄ 6 of a ligne or 1 ⁄ 864 of the smaller French foot. ligne: 1 ⁄ 144: 2.256 mm 88.81 thou 1 ⁄ 12 of a pouce. This corresponds to the line, a traditional English unit. pouce: 1 ⁄ 12: 27.07 mm 1.066 in 1 ⁄ 12 of a pied du roi. This corresponds to the inch, a traditional English unit. pied du roi: 1 32.48 cm 1.066 ft

  4. French units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    La loi du 4 juillet 1837 (the law of 4 July 1837) of the July Monarchy effectively revoked the use of mesures usuelles by reaffirming the laws of measurement of 1795 and 1799 to be used from 1 May 1840. [1] However, many units of measure, such as the livre, remained in colloquial use for many years and the livre still does to some extent.

  5. Ligne - Wikipedia

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    The standardized conversion for a ligne is 2.2558291 mm (1 mm = 0.443296 ligne), [4] and it is abbreviated with the letter L or represented by the triple prime, ‴. [5] One ligne is the equivalent of 0.0888 international inch. This is comparable in size to the British measurement called "line" (one-twelfth of an English inch), used prior to ...

  6. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    = 10 parts per million by volume = 10 ppmv = 10 volumes/10 6 volumes NO x molar mass = 46 kg/kmol = 46 g/mol Flow rate of flue gas = 20 cubic metres per minute = 20 m 3 /min The flue gas exits the furnace at 0 °C temperature and 101.325 kPa absolute pressure. The molar volume of a gas at 0 °C temperature and 101.325 kPa is 22.414 m 3 /kmol.

  7. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    5.0 × 10 −6 m 3: ≡ 5.0 × 10 −6 m 3: teaspoon (US customary) tsp ≡ 1 ⁄ 6 US fl oz = 4.928 921 593 75 × 10 −6 m 3: teaspoon (US food nutrition labeling) tsp ≡ 5 mL [18] = 5 × 10 −6 m 3: timber foot: ≡ 1 cu ft = 0.028 316 846 592 m 3: ton (displacement) ≡ 35 cu ft = 0.991 089 630 72 m 3: ton (freight) ≡ 40 cu ft = 1. ...

  8. Track gauge conversion - Wikipedia

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    Track gauge conversion is the changing of one railway track gauge (the distance between the running rails) to another. In general, requirements depend on whether the conversion is from a wider gauge to a narrower gauge or vice versa, on how the rail vehicles can be modified to accommodate a track gauge conversion, and on whether the gauge conversion is manual or automated.

  9. Metric prefix - Wikipedia

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    2 Mm 3 means two cubic megametres, or the volume of two cubes of 1 000 000 m by 1 000 000 m by 1 000 000 m, i.e. 2 × 10 18 m 3, and not 2 000 000 cubic metres (2 × 10 6 m 3). Examples with prefixes and powers