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In the Netherlands the recommended weight is 700–800 g for cock birds, and about 550 g for hens, [9] while the French standard recommends average weights of 750 g and 650 g respectively. [3] The Poultry Club of Great Britain suggests a weight in the range 790–910 g for males and 680–790 g for females.
A small-to-medium-sized breast weighs 500 grams (1.1 pounds) or less, and a large breast can weigh approximately 750 to 1,000 grams (1.7 to 2.2 pounds) or more. In terms of composition, the breasts are about 80 to 90% stromal tissue ( fat and connective tissue ), while epithelial or glandular tissue only accounts for about 10 to 20% of the ...
The Canon de 8 Gribeauval fired a round shot that weighed 8 French pounds. [15] Used until 1840, the French pound (French: livre) weighed 489.41 grams (1.08 lb) while the English pound weighed only 453.6 grams. [16] One source stated that the barrel of the 8-pounder weighed 1,200 pounds (544 kg) or 150 times the projectile weight.
The carriage weighed 1,433 pounds (650 kg) and limber weighed 787 pounds (357 kg), making a total weight of barrel, carriage and limber of 4,020 pounds (1,823 kg). [17] A second authority stated that the width of the bore was 121 millimetres (4.8 in) and the barrel length was 7 feet 7 inches (2.3 m). The barrel weighed 2,172 pounds (985 kg) and ...
The units permitted as supplementary indicators under The Weights and Measures (Packaged Goods) Regulations 2006 are the gallon, quart, pint, fluid ounce, pound and ounce. The provision of the EEC's directive 80/181/EEC that any unit of measure could be followed by a "supplementary indicator" was initially to have expired in 1989, but it was ...
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]
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight.. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales.
Weight is measured in ounces and pounds (avoirdupois) as in the U.S. Volume is measured in imperial gallons, quarts, pints, fluid ounces, fluid drachms, and minims. The imperial gallon was originally defined as 10 pounds (4.5359 kg) of water in 1824, and refined as exactly 4.54609 litres in 1985.