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  2. Stone (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Stone weight with Darius the Great–era tri-lingual inscription. 9,950g The Eschborn Museum's 2nd-century stone weight of 40 Roman pounds (c. 13 kg), beside an ID-1-sized card for scale The name "stone" derives from the historical use of stones for weights, a practice that dates back into antiquity.

  3. Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

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    Body weight 1888 drop 1892 drop 1913 drop Stone lb kg ft cm ft cm ft cm 14.0: 196: 89 6′5" 196 4'3½" 131 5′1" 155 13.5: 189: 86 6′8" 203 4'5" 135

  4. Stone (weight) - Wikipedia

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    This page was last edited on 22 January 2012, at 05:17 (UTC).; Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License; additional terms may apply.

  5. Djúpalónssandur - Wikipedia

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    Djúpalónssandur Lifting stones in Djúpalónsandur in Iceland, weighing from top to bottom 23, 54, 100, and 154 kg. Djúpalónssandur ( Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈtjuːpaˌlounsˌsantʏr̥] ) is a sandy beach and bay on foot of Snæfellsjökull in Iceland.

  6. List of obsolete units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    Sack – originally a medieval unit of mass, equal to 26 stone (364 pounds, or about 165 kg). Since a unit of dry volume, equal to 24 imperial gallons (about 109 liters). Schoenus – a unit of area or length; Scrupulum – a unit of area, mass, or time; Seam – a unit of mass or volume; Seer – a unit of mass or volume

  7. Hardness comparison - Wikipedia

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    ISO 18265: "Metallic materials — Conversion of hardness values" (2013) ASTM E140-12B(2019)e1: "Standard Hardness Conversion Tables for Metals Relationship Among Brinell Hardness, Vickers Hardness, Rockwell Hardness, Superficial Hardness, Knoop Hardness, Scleroscope Hardness, and Leeb Hardness" (2019)

  8. Ancient Mesopotamian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    EN System E used to count weight; U 4 System U used to count calendrics; DUG b System Db used to count milk by volume; DUG c System Db used to count beer by volume; In Early Dynastic Sumer (c. 2900 –2300 BCE) metrology and mathematics were indistinguishable and treated as a single scribal discipline.

  9. Lifting stone - Wikipedia

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    Lifting a stone at Harri-jasotzaileak event in the Basque Country. Lifting stones are heavy natural stones which people are challenged to lift, proving their strength. They are common throughout Northern Europe, particularly Iceland (where they are referred to as steintökin), Ireland, Scotland, Basque Country, Faroe Islands, Wales, North West England centered around Cumbria, Switzerland ...