When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Troy weight - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_weight

   The only troy weight in widespread use is the British Imperial troy ounce and its American counterpart. Both are based on a grain of 0.06479891 gram (exact, by definition), with 480 grains to a troy ounce (compared with 437 + 1 ⁄ 2 grains for an ounce avoirdupois). The British Empire abolished the 12-ounce troy pound in the 19th century.

3. Ounce - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ounce

   Consequently, the international troy ounce is equal to exactly 31.1034768 grams. There are 12 troy ounces in the now obsolete troy pound. Today, the troy ounce is used only to express the mass of precious metals such as gold, platinum, palladium, rhodium or silver.

4. Tael - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael

   In general the silver tael weighed around 40 grams (1.3 ozt). The most common government measure was the Kuping (庫平; kùpíng; 'treasury standard') tael, weighing 37.5 grams (1.21 ozt). A common commercial weight, the Caoping (漕平; cáopíng; 'canal shipping standard') tael weighed 36.7 grams (1.18 ozt) of marginally less pure silver.

5. Chinese Silver Panda - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Silver_Panda

   In 2015, the Gold and Silver Panda coins were not labeled with metal fineness and weight. This information returned in 2016 when the 1 troy ounce coin was replaced by the 30-gram coin (one troy ounce is approximately 31.1 grams). [1] The official distributor in China for the Silver and Gold Panda coins is the China Gold Coin Incorporation (CGCI).

6. Silver - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver

   Silver nitrate is the starting material in all cases. [125] The market for silver nitrate and silver halides for photography has rapidly declined with the rise of digital cameras. From the peak global demand for photographic silver in 1999 (267,000,000 troy ounces or 8,304.6 tonnes) the market contracted almost 70% by 2013. [126]

7. Pennyweight - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennyweight

   A pennyweight (dwt) is a unit of mass equal to 24 grains, 1 ⁄ 20 of a troy ounce, 1 ⁄ 240 of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce [1] and exactly 1.55517384 grams. [2] It is abbreviated dwt, d standing for denarius – (an ancient Roman coin), and later used as the symbol of an old British penny (see £sd).