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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.
A sack of coal was 16 stone, or 224 pounds (102 kg), while the weight of a sack of wool depended on who was selling it. A sack of grower's wool was 3 + 1 ⁄ 4 hundredweight or 364 pounds (165 kg), whereas a sack of dealer's wool was considerably lighter, at 240 pounds (109 kg). [11]
Related units include the picul, equal to 100 catties, and the tael, which is 1 ⁄ 16 of a catty. A stone is a former unit used in Hong Kong equal to 120 catties and a gwan ( 鈞 ) is 30 catties. Catty or kati is still used in Southeast Asia as a unit of measurement in some contexts especially by the significant Overseas Chinese populations ...
1 lb = 16 oz = 7000 grains ('lb' is an abbreviation for the Ancient Roman unit libra) Stone (st) 6.35 kg: 1 st = 14 lb (see Stone (unit) for other values) Quarter (qr) 12.7 kg: 1 qr = 1 ⁄ 4 cwt, or 2 st, or 28 lb Hundredweight (cwt) 50.8 kg: 1 cwt = 112 lb, or 8 st Ton: 1.016 tonne: 1 ton = 20 cwt, or 2240 lb Nail: 3.175 kg: 1 nail = 1 ⁄ 16 ...
10 16: 1 × 10 16 kg 951 Gaspra, the first asteroid ever to be closely approached by a spacecraft (rough estimate) [125] 1 × 10 16 kg Rough estimate of the total carbon content of all organisms on Earth. [126] 3 × 10 16 kg Rough estimate of everything produced by the human species. [127] 3.8 × 10 16 kg Total carbon stored in the oceans. [128 ...
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 .
1.2 (3.324 × 10 16 kg) 658: 5410: 2019: Preismonitor [20] [g] Min. 99% pure, Free on Board China. 66: Dy: Dysprosium: 8.55: 5.2 (1.4404 ...
The 35 lb (16 kg) weight throw (men) and 20 lb (9.1 kg) weight throw (women) are not recognised by World Athletics. The Scottish Highland Games contain two weight throwing events. In the one event the weight, 28 lb (13 kg) or 56 lb (25 kg), is thrown in a similar manner to a discus.