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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 ...
A picul / ˈ p ɪ k əl /, [1] dan [2] or tam, [3] is a traditional Asian unit of weight, defined as "as much as a man can carry on a shoulder-pole". [1] Historically, it was defined as equivalent to 100 or 120 catties, depending on time and region.
The siriometer is an obsolete astronomical measure equal to one million astronomical units, i.e., one million times the average distance between the Sun and Earth. [13] This distance is equal to about 15.8 light-years, 149.6 Pm, or 4.8 parsecs, and is about twice the distance from Earth to the star Sirius. [14]
One pikol (or one pecul) was equal to 61.761 3025 kg by its legal definition. [2] Some other units and their legal equivalents are given below: 1 thail = 1 ⁄ 1600 pikol 1 catti = 1 ⁄ 100 pikol 1 kabi = 1 ⁄ 100 pikol 1 kulack = 0.0725 pikol 1 amat = 2 pikol 1 small bahar = 3 pikol 1 large bahar = 4.5 pikol 1 timbang = 5 pikol
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Mass: A million cubic millimetres (small droplets) of water would have a volume of one litre and a mass of one kilogram. A million millilitres or cubic centimetres (one cubic metre) of water has a mass of a million grams or one tonne. Weight: A million 80-milligram (1.2 gr) honey bees would weigh the same as an 80 kg (180 lb) person.
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The diameter of the bore at the muzzle is more than 2.2 in. Above [he touch-hole there is a movable lid to protect (the priming powder) from rain. This cannon does not give a great bang nor much recoil. With 3 oz. of gunpowder use one large lead ball weighing 2 catties, or 100 small lead bullets (in a bag), each weighing 0.6 oz. (6 qian ...