Sentence examples for troy pound from inspiring English sources
noun
A unit of weight, rarely used except in the trade of precious metals, equal to 5760 grains, 12 troy ounces, or 373.2417 grams.
The troy pound was adopted by the U.S. Mint for the regulation of coinage in 1828.
The troy pound, for weighing gold and silver bullion, and the apothecaries' weight for drugs contained only 12 troy ounces.
The troy pound is equal to the apothecaries' pound and to approximately 0.82 avoirdupois pound and 0.373 kilogram.
The two new basic standard units were the imperial standard yard and the troy pound, which was later restricted to weighing drugs, precious metals, and jewels.
The avoirdupois pound, at 7,000 grains, exactly corresponded with the British, as did the troy pound at 5,760 grains; however, the U.S. bushel, at 2,150.42 cubic inches, again deviated from the British.
The several trade pounds in common use were reduced to just two: the troy pound, primarily for precious metals, and the pound avoirdupois, for other goods sold by weight.
It is equal to about 1.22 apothecaries' or troy pounds.
(There are 20.2 troy pounds of gold in the chest and the price varies every hour. Some of the coins have numismatic value beyond the value of spot gold).
Thus, 12 occurs as the number of inches in a foot, months in a year, ounces in a pound (troy weight or apothecaries' weight), and twice 12 hours in a day, and both the dozen and the gross measure by twelves.
They figured out the Warriors' misdirection run offense and then began to pound Troy's defense.
Jernigan arrived at Troy as a 165-pound freshman who was flattened at his first contact practice.
