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  2. Cooking weights and measures - Wikipedia

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    1 fluid ounce of water weighs approximately 1 ounce so a recipe calling for a UK pint (20 fl oz) of water can be substituted with 20 oz of water. ... (4.5359 kg) of ...

  3. 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.

  4. 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).

  5. Dutch units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 pond (pound) = 1 kilogram (1 pound avoirdupois = 0.454 kg) (though in modern colloquial speech, 500 g is also known as a pond. 1 ons (ounce) = 100 grams (1 ounce avoirdupois = 28.35 g) 1 lood (lead) = 10 grams 1 wigtje (small weight) = 1 gram 1 korrel (grain) = 0.1 gram

  6. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    A dram is 1 ⁄ 16 of an ounce ounce (oz) 1 ⁄ 16: 28.349 523 125 g: An ounce is 1 ⁄ 16 of a pound pound (lb) 1 0.453 592 37 kg: Defined by the Units of Measurement Regulations 1994 (SI 1994/2867) [33] stone (st) 14 6.350 293 18 kg: The plural stone is often used when providing a weight (e.g. "this sack weighs 8 stone"). [34]

  7. Apothecaries' system - Wikipedia

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    1 ounce 8 drachms: 24 scruples ... second half of the 15th century. It is an elaborate set of nesting weight pieces, with a total metric weight of 12.238 kg.

  8. 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]

  9. Ounce - Wikipedia

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    (A kilogram bullion bar contains 32.151 troy ounces.) For historical measurement of gold, a fine ounce is a troy ounce of pure gold content in a gold bar, computed as fineness multiplied by gross weight [5] a standard ounce is a troy ounce of 22 carat gold, 91.66% pure (an 11 to 1 proportion of gold to alloy material)