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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.
The volume of 1 grain of distilled water at 62 °F, 30 inHg pressure. [25] At that reference, water has a density of ≃ 0.9988 g ⁄ ml (438.0 grain / imp fl oz or 1.001 oz av / imp fl oz ), and thus: = 1.096 imperial minim [26] = .06488 ml or approximately a drop.
In the United Kingdom, 14 avoirdupois pounds equal one stone. The quarter, hundredweight, and ton equal respectively, 28 lb, 112 lb, and 2,240 lb in order for masses to be easily converted between them and stone. The following are the units in the British or imperial version of the avoirdupois system:
Sack – originally a medieval unit of mass, equal to 26 stone (364 pounds, or about 165 kg). Since a unit of dry volume , equal to 24 imperial gallons (about 109 liters). Schoenus – a unit of area or length
One imperial hundredweight is equal to eight stone. This is the long hundredweight, 112 pounds, as opposed to the short hundredweight of 100 pounds used in the United States and Canada. [36] ton (t [citation needed]) 2240 1 016.046 9088 kg: Twenty hundredweight equals a ton (as in the US and Canadian [36] systems). The imperial hundredweight is ...
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