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  2. List of conversion factors - Wikipedia

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    ≡ g 0 × 1 lb av × 1 s 2 /ft ≈ 14.593 903 kg: stone: st ≡ 14 lb av ... foot lb/ft 3: ≡ lb/ft 3: ≈ 16.018 ... × 10 −4 Pa⋅s: pound per foot second: lb ...

  3. Stone (unit) - Wikipedia

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    For example, the Belfast stone for measuring flax equaled 16.75 avoirdupois pounds. [28] The most usual value was 14 pounds. [29] Among the oddities related to the use of the stone was the practice in County Clare of a stone of potatoes being 16 lb in the summer and 18 lb in the winter. [29]

  4. Slug (unit) - Wikipedia

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    One slug is a mass equal to 32.17405 lb (14.59390 kg) based on standard gravity, the international foot, and the avoirdupois pound. [3] In other words, at the Earth's surface (in standard gravity), an object with a mass of 1 slug weighs approximately 32.17405 lbf or 143.1173 N. [4] [5]

  5. Pound-foot (torque) - Wikipedia

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    A pound-foot (lbft), abbreviated from pound-force foot (lbf · ft), is a unit of torque representing one pound of force acting at a perpendicular distance of one foot from a pivot point. [2] Conversely one foot pound-force (ft · lbf) is the moment about an axis that applies one pound-force at a radius of one foot.

  6. English units - Wikipedia

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    1 oz = 16 dr = 437.5 grains Pound (lb) ≈453.6 g: 1 lb = 16 oz = 7000 grains ('lb' is an abbreviation for the Ancient Roman unit libra) Stone (st) 6.35 kg: 1 st = 14 lb (see Stone (unit) for other values) Quarter (qr) 12.7 kg: 1 qr = 1 ⁄ 4 cwt, or 2 st, or 28 lb Hundredweight (cwt) 50.8 kg: 1 cwt = 112 lb, or 8 st Ton: 1.016 tonne: 1 ton ...

  7. Weight throw - Wikipedia

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    16 24.41 m (80 ft 1 in) A: ... The heavy weight is 56 lb, or four stone (25.4 kg). For all female athletes, the weights are 14 and 28 lb (6.35 and 12.7 kg). For male ...

  8. Pound (force) - Wikipedia

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    The standard values of acceleration of the standard gravitational field (g n) and the international avoirdupois pound (lb) result in a pound-force equal to 32.174 049 ⁠ ftlb / s 2 ⁠ (4.4482216152605 N).

  9. Long ton - Wikipedia

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    2,240 pounds (1,016.0 kilograms; 1.0160 metric tons) exactly 12% more than the 2,000 pounds of the North American short ton, being 20 long hundredweight (112 lb) rather than 20 short hundredweight (100 lb) the weight of 35 cubic feet (0.991 m 3) [2] of salt water with a density of 64 pounds per cubic foot (1.03 g/cm 3) [1]