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Standard drink. United States standard drinks of beer, malt liquor, wine, and spirits compared. Each contains about 14 grams or 17.7 ml of ethanol. A standard drink or (in the UK) unit of alcohol is a measure of alcohol consumption representing a fixed amount of pure alcohol. The notion is used in relation to recommendations about alcohol ...
A troy ounce (abbreviated oz t) is equal to 480 grains. 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.
U.S. customary. 0.0352740 ounces. Atomic mass units. 6.022 140 76 × 1023 Da. The gram (originally gramme; [1] SI unit symbol g) is a unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one thousandth of a kilogram . Originally defined as of 1795 as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth ...
A fluid ounce (abbreviated fl oz, fl. oz. or oz. fl., old forms ℥, fl ℥, f℥, ƒ ℥) is a unit of volume (also called capacity) typically used for measuring liquids. The British Imperial , the United States customary , and the United States food labeling fluid ounce are the three that are still in common use, although various definitions ...
A grain is a unit of measurement of mass, and in the troy weight, avoirdupois, and apothecaries' systems, equal to exactly 1/7000 of a pound. It is nominally based upon the mass of a single ideal seed of a cereal. From the Bronze Age into the Renaissance, the average masses of wheat and barley grains were part of the legal definitions of units ...
An ounce consisted of 437.5 grains, thus making the dram approximately 27.34 grains. drachm now meant only apothecaries' drachms, which were 1 ⁄ 8 of an apothecaries' ounce of 480 grains, thus equal to 60 grains. Modern unit of mass. In the avoirdupois system, the dram is the mass of 1 ⁄ 256 pound or 1 ⁄ 16 ounce.:
60 US fl oz: 3.75 US pints. The 60 oz pitcher is usually used with medium 12 oz beer glasses (5 glasses per pitcher). growler: 1.89 L: 64 US fl oz: 1 ⁄ 2 US gallon. Darwin stubby: 2.273 L: 80 imp fl oz: Standard Australian bottle size, equal to half of an Imperial gallon. Later rounded off to 2.25 L (79.18 imp fl oz) after metrication.
The Russian pound ( Фунт, funt) is an obsolete Russian unit of measurement of mass. It is equal to 409.51718 g (14.445293 oz). [50] In 1899, the funt was the basic unit of weight, and all other units of weight were formed from it; in particular, a zolotnik was of a funt, and a pood was 40 fúnty .