Copy 1, Volume 1

Hand-book of chemistry / Translated by Henry Watts.

  • Gmelin, Leopold, 1788-1853
Date:
1848-1872
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Credit: Hand-book of chemistry / Translated by Henry Watts. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. In the new French system of weights and measures, a Metre is the ten-millionth part of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator, or of half the length of a meridian. It is divided into tenths, hundredths, and thousandths, or Decimetres, Centimetres, and Millimetres. 1 Metre = 0°518074 French Toises = 8 Paris Feet and 11:1 Lines = 36°94128 Par. Inches = 39°37079 English Inches.—A French Foot = 0'32484 met.; an English Foot = 03047946 met., and a Swedish Foot = 0°296867 met. 1 Cubic Metre = 1 Stére = 1000 Litres = 1,000,000 Cubic Centi- metres, 1 Cubic Decimetre = 1 Litre = 1000 Cubic Centimetres. 1 Gallon English = 4°543 Litres, 1 Cubic Centimctre of water at + 4° C., its point of maximum den- sity, weighs 1 Gramme: hence, 1 Litre of water at 4° weighs 1000 Grammes (about 2 pounds); and 1 Stére of water weighs 1,000,000 Grammes = 1000 Kilogrammes. 10,000 Grammes = 1 Myriagramme; 1000 Grammes = 1 Kilo- gramme; 100 Grammes = 1 Hectogramme; 10 Grammes = 1 JDeca- gramme; 0°'1 Gramme = 1 Decigramme; 0°01 Gramme = 1 Centi- gramme; 0°001 Gramme = J Milligramme. 1 Gramme = 18°82715 Fr. grains, poids de mare (72 grains = 1 dram); = 16:091022755 grains, Niiremberg weight; = 281°01569 Richt- pfennigtheilchen, Kélnish Markgewicht (65536 Richtpfennigtheilchen = 8 ounces or 1 mark); = 0:56475 drams, English avoirdupois (16 drams = 1 ounce, 16 ounces =1 pound); = 15°44242 grains, English troy imperial (480 gr. = 1 oz. 1202. =11]b.); = 0:23505 Solotnik, Russian weight (3 Solotnik = 1 Loth, 32 Loth = 1 pound); = 22°54086 Doli (96 Doli=1 Solotnik, 288 Doli =1 Loth, and 9216 Doli =1 Russian pound). 1 Paris Cubic Inch of water at 4° weighs 19:836 Grammes = 319°4 Grains Niiremberg weight;—1 Rhenish Gubic Inch of water weighs 17°891 Grammes = 288°1 Niir.;—1 English Cubic Inch of water weighs 16°891 Grammes = 264°5 Nur. wt. 1 Apothecaries’ pound (12 0z.) weighs: in Austria, 420:009 Grammes —in Holland, 374:96 grm.—in England, troy-weight, 372°9986 grm.— in Bavaria, 360 grm.—in Niiremberg, 357°66391 grm.—in Hanover, 357'56686 grm.—in Sweden, 356°22687 grm.—in Prussia, 350°78348 grm.