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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]
The Spanish tonelada of volume was reckoned as 2 butts or pipes (botas or pipas) and equivalent to 968.2 liters or 255.8 gallons. [2]The Spanish tonelada of shipping capacity varied in size and method of computation over the years but scholars place the usual value for southern Spain from Columbus [3] through the Age of Exploration at about 1.42 m 3 or 50.1 cu. ft. [4] [b] This was the same as ...
Between 1844 and 1881, the lira was on a bimetallic standard, with LT 1 = 6.61519 grams pure gold (roughly 9 ⁄ 10 of a British Sovereign) = 99.8292 grams pure silver. In 1881, the gold standard was adopted and continued until 1914. World War I saw Turkey effectively depart from the gold standard with the gold lira being worth about LT 9 in ...
An overview of ranges of mass. To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following lists describe various mass levels between 10 −67 kg and 10 52 kg. The least massive thing listed here is a graviton, and the most massive thing is the observable universe.
A suspect is in custody after a knife attack at Grand Central 42 Street subway station in New York injured two with neck and wrist slashes.
Finding a shelter. To find shelters near you where you can have an impact, search for your city or county's animal services department. Many of these shelters will share links online to wish lists ...
First-round players to watch, keys to the game. For the first time ever, there will be College Football Playoff games on campuses. Notre Dame-Indiana will get things started on Friday night before ...
TSFC or SFC for thrust engines (e.g. turbojets, turbofans, ramjets, rockets, etc.) is the mass of fuel needed to provide the net thrust for a given period e.g. lb/(h·lbf) (pounds of fuel per hour-pound of thrust) or g/(s·kN) (grams of fuel per second-kilonewton). Mass of fuel is used, rather than volume (gallons or litres) for the fuel ...