Sentence examples for unit of weight from inspiring English sources
Dram, unit of weight in the apothecaries' and avoirdupois systems.
Five thousand years ago, a shekel was a unit of weight – usually barley.
Shi, also called dan, the basic unit of weight in ancient China.
Carat, unit of weight for diamonds and certain other precious gems.
Grain, unit of weight equal to 0.065 gram, or 1/7,000 pound avoirdupois.
Talent, unit of weight used by many ancient civilizations, such as the Hebrews, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans.
Mina, earliest of all known units of weight.
Units of weight are those of force, not mass (see force).
The concentration of any component in a solution may be expressed in units of weight or volume or in moles.
The libra is one of the nonmetric units of weight still used in Spain, Portugal, and several Spanish-speaking countries of the Americas.
Owing to the bewildering variety of currencies and units of weight and measurement then in use, the accounts attained a complexity described by a contemporary postmaster general of the United States as "almost beyond belief".
