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  2. Stone (unit) - Wikipedia

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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 .

  3. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    Conversions between units in the metric system are defined by their prefixes (for example, 1 kilogram = 1000 grams, 1 milligram = 0.001 grams) and are thus not listed in this article. Exceptions are made if the unit is commonly known by another name (for example, 1 micron = 10 −6 metre).

  4. Template:Convert/list of units/mass - Wikipedia

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    1.0 long cwt (110 lb; 51 kg) short hundredweight: short cwt short cwt 1.0 short cwt (100 lb; 45 kg) long quarter: long qtr long qtr 1.0 long qtr (28 lb; 13 kg) short quarter: short qtr short qtr 1.0 short qtr (25 lb; 11 kg) stone: st st 14 lb used mostly in the British Commonwealth except Canada 1.0 st (14 lb; 6.4 kg) st kg. st kg lb; st lb

  5. Template:Convert/list of units - Wikipedia

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    The table below lists units supported by ... kg}} → 100 pounds (45 kg) ... conversion combination output units

  6. Template:Long ton - Wikipedia

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    This template is intended to allow entry of imperial weights (Avoirdupois), measured in tons, hundredweights, quarters and/or pounds (ton, cwt, qr and/or lb) and provide a conversion into pounds and into tonnes (metric tons) or kilograms (if the first parameter is blank or zero).

  7. English units - Wikipedia

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    Mercantile stone 12 lb L ≈ 5.6 kg Butcher's stone 8 lb ≈ 3.63 kg Sack 26 st = 364 lb ≈ 165 kg The carat was once specified as four grains in the English-speaking world. Some local units in the English dominion were (re-)defined in simple terms of English units, such as the Indian tola of 180 grains. Tod This was an English weight for wool ...

  8. Hundredweight - Wikipedia

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    The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [ 2 ] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton , producing a " short ton " of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a " long ton " of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).

  9. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.