 | English cookery book - 1859 - 578 páginas
...be recovered by reference to the weight of a cubic inch of water ; it having been ascertained that a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62 degrees Fahrenheit, and the baroineter at thirty inches, is equal to 252'45S grains ; and as the standard troy... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 798 páginas
...standard. The standard grain, prescribed by act of parliament in the reign of George IV., is such that "a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252.458 grains." AVOLA, a Sicilian... | |
 | Francis Walkinghame - 1859 - 200 páginas
...bought and sold. The imperial or standard gallon must contain 10 IDs, avoirdupois weight, of pure water, at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 80 inches. This quantity measures 277.274 cubic inches. Casks of most descriptions are generally charged... | |
 | William Barnes - 1859 - 220 páginas
...148 pound weight shall be a certain quantity more than 22 times the weight of a cubic inch of rain water, weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit. The insufficiency of weight alone, and the help afforded to it by measure, are shown by... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1860 - 540 páginas
...the commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire into the subject of weights and measures, that a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by...the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252 grains, and 456 thousandth parts of a grain, of which, as aforesaid, the Imperial Standard Troy Pound... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1861 - 556 páginas
...the cubic foot containing 62 '321 Ibs. avoirdupois weight of distilled or rain water weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, except as relates to contracts made before the passing of this Act, by which a different unit of measure... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1863 - 162 páginas
...said avoirdupois ounce 1 dram. 5. — Standard pound Troy if lost, &c., to be restored by reference to a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air, by brass weights at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, the weight of which is equal to 252 grains... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1863 - 540 páginas
...pound sterling ? Such a part of an ounce of gold. What is an ounce ? Such a part of the weight of " a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches."* What is an inch ? A measure bearing... | |
 | Stephen Parkinson - 1863 - 408 páginas
...The standard of weight in England is the pound Troy, consisting of 5760 grains; and it is stated that a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights at 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, weighs 252'458 such grains: — the pound Avoirdupois... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1863 - 874 páginas
...above standard. The pound troy, from the standard of 1758, is also defined by determining that the cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights, at 62°, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252.458 grains (the pound being 5,760 grains).... | |
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Majesty to inquire into the subject of weights and measures, that a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252 grains, and... 
