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  2. Baker percentage - Wikipedia

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    1 pound (lb) = 16 ounces (oz) 1 kilogram (kg) = 1,000 grams (g) = 2.20462262 lb 1 lb = 453.59237 g = 0.45359237 kg 1 oz = 28.3495231 g. In four different English-language countries of recipe and measuring-utensil markets, approximate cup volumes range from 236.59 to 284.1 milliliters (mL).

  3. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    A US fluid ounce is ⁠ 1 / 16 ⁠ of a US pint (about 1·04 UK fluid ounces or 29.6 mL); a UK fluid ounce is ⁠ 1 / 20 ⁠ of a UK pint (about 0·96 US fluid ounce or 28.4 mL). On a larger scale, perhaps for institutional cookery, a UK gallon is 8 UK pints (160 UK fluid ounces; about 1·2 US gallons or 4.546 litres), whereas the US gallon is ...

  4. Troy weight - Wikipedia

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    One-troy-ounce (480 gr; 31 g) samples of germanium, iron, aluminium, rhenium and osmium A Good Delivery silver bar weighing 1,000 troy ounces (83 troy pounds; 31 kg) Troy weight is a system of units of mass that originated in the Kingdom of England in the 15th century [ 1 ] and is primarily used in the precious metals industry.

  5. Cup (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The cup is a cooking measure of volume, commonly associated with cooking and serving sizes.In the US, it is traditionally equal to one-half US pint (236.6 ml). Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup commonly being rounded up to 240 millilitres (legal cup), but 250 ml is also used depending on the ...

  6. Pound (mass) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    In dry weight, the omer weighed between 1.560 kg to 1.770 kg, being the quantity of flour required to separate therefrom the dough offering. [32] In the Torah, it is the Priestly Code which refers to the omer , rather than to the se'ah or kab ; [ 1 ] textual scholars view the Priestly Code as one of the later sources of the Torah, dating from a ...

  8. Orders of magnitude (mass) - Wikipedia

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    1.79 × 10 36 kg The entire Carina complex. 2.4 × 10 36 kg The Gould Belt of stars, including the Sun (1.2 × 10 6 M ☉) [164] 7–8 × 10 36 kg The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, associated with the radio source Sagittarius A* (3.7±0.2 × 10 6 M ☉) [165] 8 × 10 36 kg

  9. Alcohol by volume - Wikipedia

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    Change in volume with increasing alc/vol. Mixing two solutions of alcohol of different strengths usually causes a change in volume. Mixing pure water with a solution less than 24% by mass causes a slight increase in total volume, whereas the mixing of two solutions above 24% causes a decrease in volume.