 | Criticism - 1879 - 876 pages
...The pound troy of 5760 grains copied from the standard of 1760, is also defined by determining tha; a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights at 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252,248 grains. The standard for measures... | |
 | Great Britain - 1824 - 826 pages
...the Commissioners appointed by His Majesty to inquire < into the Subjects of Weights and Measures, that a Cubic Inch < of distilled Water, weighed in Air by Brass Weights, at the < Temperature of Sixty two degrees of Fahrenheit's Thermometer, * the Barometer being at Thirty Inches, is equal to... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1899 - 406 pages
...62° F., barometer 30 ins., was made the standard of capacity for liquid measures. At the same time, a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights at the temperature of 62° F., the barometer at 30 ins., was declared to contain 252'458 grains, thus making the contents of the... | |
 | Royal Meteorological Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1899 - 384 pages
...62° F., barometer 30 ins., was made the standard of capacity for liquid measures. At the same time, a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights at the temperature of 62° F., the barometer at 30 ins., was declared to contain 252.458 grains, thus making the contents of the... | |
 | Henry Atton - Customs administration - 1910 - 546 pages
...same custody ; date of construction, 1758. This might at any time be reconstructed by comparison with a cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights at 62° F., barometer at 30 inches. A new gallon measure, much larger than the old wine measure, was prescribed,... | |
 | Otto Augustus Wall - Medicine - 1917 - 268 pages
...lowest denomination of this system was the grain, which was determined by act of Parliament as follows: "A cubic inch of distilled water, weighed in air by brass weights at the temperature of 62° F., the barometer being at 30 inches, is equal to 252.458 grains." The grain had been in use previous... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1966 - 252 pages
...pound weight of distilled water weighed in air against brass weights with the water and the air at a temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer and with the barometer at 30 inches." This same definition was also in the Weights and Measures Act of 1878. The Act of 1963 referred the... | |
 | John Arthur Slater - Business - 1924 - 640 pages
...value of the grain is sot forth in the Act of Parliament, 5 Geo. IV, c. 74, in the following words : " 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, is equal to 262 grains and four hundred... | |
 | Weights and measures - 1957 - 168 pages
...pendulum beating seconds in a vacuum at sea level in the latitude of London, and that of the pound, "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 thirty inches." *Figures in brackets indicate the... | |
 | Ronald Edward Zupko - Science - 1990 - 578 pages
...ll). The troy pound could be reconstructed in the event of some injury by reference to the weight of a cubic inch of distilled water weighed in air by brass weights at a temperature of 62 F. and a barometric pressure reading of 30 inches. Parliament legalized the weight... | |
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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... 
