Ounce (unit)

See also: Ounce

The ounce is an old unit of Masse, still used in certain countries, whose value is included/understood enters 24 and 33 grams.

At the time of the Roman Empire, the Roman ounce, uncia , was equal to the twelfth (in Latin, uncia is “the twelfth started from a whole”) of the delivers Roman, and was worth 27,264 G.

Before the adoption of the Metric system by the France in 1794, the ounce was equal to sixteenth of the delivers of Paris, and was worth 30,594 G.

the ounce troy (symbol OZ T ) is equal to the twelfth of the delivers troy (according to the town of Troyes) and is worth 31,103 476 8 G in the System of weight of troy; the ounce troy is in particular used for the quotation of metals invaluable, like the Or and the money.

the ounce avoirdupois (symbol front OZ ) is equal to sixteenth of the delivers avoirdupois and is worth 28,349 523 125 G in the System avoirdupois. This unit is used in the nations of the the Commonwealth and by the the United States of America. The symbol OZ comes from the old term onza (now written oncia ) meaning ounce.

See: Measuring units (Old Mode)

the liquid Once (symbol fl OZ ) is a unit of Volume, whose value is of 28,413 062 5 ml in the imperial Système of units, and of 29,573 529.562 5 ml in the American Système of units.

In Dutch, the ons is not a unit of official mass, but remains often employed: 1 ons = 100 G.

With illustrated, the ounce indicates a very small quantity. Proverbially, to say of a man whom “it does not have an ounce of good sense, or judgment”, means that it has only few of these faculties.

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