 TROY WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.). 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (oz.). 12 ounces = 1 pound (lb.). 351. Apothecaries' weight is used in mixing medicines and in selling them at retail. APOTHECARIES  An Intellectual Arithmetic - Σελίδα 112των George Augustus Walton - 1873 - 176 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Alfred Kirk, Henry Holmes Belfield - 1876 - 220 σελίδες
...Ib.? 203 '. Troy weight is used for weighing gold, silver, and nrecious stones. TABLE OF TEOT WEIGHT. 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight (pwt.) 20 pennyweights = 1 ounce (oz.) 12 ounces = 1 pound (Ib.) ORAL. 1. How many grains in 2 pwt.? 2. How many. pwt. in 72 grains? 3. How many oz. in 5 Ib. ? In 7... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1876 - 230 σελίδες
...hundred-weight ? TROY WEIGHT. 152. Troy Weight is used for gold, silver, and jewels. Table. 24 grains (gr.) are 1 pennyweight, pwt. 20 pennyweights, 1 ounce, oz. 12 ounces, 1 pound, Ib. APOTHECARIES, in mixing medicines, use the pound, ounce (§), and grain, of this weight; but divide... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1876 - 344 σελίδες
...87. Troy Weight is the weight used in weighing gold, silver, and jewels. TABLE. 24 Grains (gr.) make 1 Pennyweight, pwt. 20 Pennyweights " 1 Ounce, oz. 12 Ounces " 1 Pound, Ib. 86. How do you reduce farthings to pence ? Why divide by 4 1 do you reduce pence to shillings ? Why... | |
 | James Bates Thomson - 1876 - 156 σελίδες
...What are the denominations ? Ans. Pounds, ounces, pennyweights, and grains. TABLE. 24 grains (gr.) are 1 pennyweight, pwt. 20 pennyweights " 1 ounce, oz. 12 ounces " 1 pound, lb. NOTE. — The best method of imparting to children a correct idea of Weights and Measures, is to... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1876 - 370 σελίδες
...WEIGHT. 203. Troy Weight is used for weighing gold, silver, and jewels, Tat»le. 24 grains (gr.) are 1 pennyweight, pwt. 20 pennyweights, 1 ounce, oz. 12 ounces, 1 pound, lb. What is Measure ? A Line ? A Surface ? A Solid, Body or Volume 1 Weight? A Unit of Measure? The... | |
 | Edward Brooks - 1877 - 438 σελίδες
...2<»O. Troy Weight is used in weighing gold, silver jewels, liquors in philosophical experiments, etc. TABLE. 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight, . . pwt. 20...pennyweights = 1 ounce, . . . . oz. 12 ounces = 1 pound, Ib. T. NAME. — The term Troy is said to be derived from Truyes, the name of a town in France, where this... | |
 | Edward Brooks - 1877 - 250 σελίδες
...26O. Troy Weight is used in weighing gold, silver, jewels, liquors in philosophical experiments, etc. TABLE. 24 grains (gr.) = 1 pennyweight, . . pwt 20...pennyweights = 1 ounce oz. 12 ounces — 1 pound, . . . . Ib. !. NAME. — The term Troy is said to be derived from Troya, the name of a town in France, where thin... | |
 | William James Milne - 1877 - 418 σελίδες
...4 cwt. 20 Ib. of wheat? TROY WEIGHT. 272. Troy Weight is used in weighing gold, silver, and jewels. TABLE. 24 Grains (gr.) = 1 Pennyweight . . . pwt....Pennyweights = 1 Ounce oz. 12 ounces = 1 Pound : Ib. Ib. oz. pti't. gr. 1 = 12 = 240 = 5760 Jade — 24, 20, 12. 1. In weighing diamonds, pearls, and other... | |
 | Edward Brooks - 1877 - 528 σελίδες
...WEIGHT. 365. Troy Weight is used in weighing gold, silver, jewels, in philosophical experiments, etc. TABLE. 24 grains (gr.) . = 1 pennyweight . pwt. 20.... = 1 ounce . . oz. 12 ounces . . =1 pound . . Ib. Ib. oz. pwt. gr. 1 = 12 = 240 = 5760 ' 1 = 20 = 480 SCALE.— Ascending, 24, 20, 12 ; descending, 12,... | |
 | William James Milne - 1877 - 402 σελίδες
...4 cwt. 20 lb. of wheat? TROY WEIGHT. 272. Troy Weight is used in weighing gold, silver, and jewels. TABLE. 24 Grains (gr.) = 1 Pennyweight . . . pwt. 20 Pennyweights = 1 Ounce oz. 12 ounces = 1 Pound lb. lb. oz. pivt. gr. 1 = 12 = 240 = 5760 Scale — 24, 20, 12. 1. In weighing diamonds, pearls, and... | |
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