 | Charles Elsee - 1866 - 300 pages
...dekal, liectol, &c.). Compared with our common system, 5 litres are about equal to a gallon. 55. — The unit of weight is the gram, which is the weight of a cubic centimetre of distilled water; and the series ascends and descends, as before, by the dekagram,... | |
 | John Attfield - 1871 - 568 pages
...Capacity. — The Unity of Capacity is the LITRE, which is the Cube of a Tenth Part of a Metre. Weight. — The Unit of Weight is the GRAM, which is the Weight of that quantity of distilled water, at its maximum density, which fills a Cube of the One-hundredth part... | |
 | Alfred Ely Beach - 1872 - 434 pages
...liter, and the ser'es of measures is formed in tho same way as in the case of the table of length. The cubic meter is the unit of measure for solid bodies,...termed stere. The Unit of Weight is the gram, which k the weight of one cubic centimeter of pure water weighed in a vacuum at the temperature of 4 degrees... | |
 | Alfred Ely Beach - 1872 - 422 pages
...liter, and the series of measures is formed in the same way as in the case of the table of length. The cubic meter is the unit of measure for solid bodies, and is termed stere. Tkt Unit of Weight is the gram, which Is the weight of one cubic centimeter of pure water weighed in... | |
 | 1873 - 630 pages
...Capacity. — The Unity of Capacity is the LITRE, which is the Cube of a Tenth Part of a Metre. Weight. — The Unit of Weight is the GRAM, which is the Weight of that quantity of distilled water, at its maximum density (4° C.), which fills a Cube of the One-hundredth... | |
 | Israel Ward Andrews - 1874 - 412 pages
...hectoliter, and kiloliter; and the deciliter, centiliter, and milliliter. The unit of the measures of weight is the gram, which is the weight of one cubic centimeter of water at its maximum density, and is the equivalent of 15.432 grains avoirdupois. Then we have, as... | |
 | John Attfield - 1876 - 702 pages
...Capacitif. — The Unity of Capacity is the LITRE, which is the Cube of a Tenth Part of a Metre. Weight.— The Unit of Weight is the GRAM, which is the Weight of that quantity of distilled water, at its maximum density 4° C.) which fills a Cube of the Oue-huudredth... | |
 | Calvin G. Hutchinson - 1883 - 248 pages
...millimeters by taking 3.1416 as the ratio of the circumference to the diameter. SECTION 8. — Weight. 171. The unit of weight is the gram, which is the weight of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its maximum density. Equal in Vol. of Water. One-thonsandth of a gram. One-hundredth of a gram,... | |
 | Nathan Haskell Dole - 1883 - 616 pages
...milliliters = 1.06 US quarts. 10 liters = i dekaliter, 10 dekaliters = i hektoliter = about 3 bushels. The unit of weight is the gram, which is the weight of one cubic centimeter of distilled water at the freezing point. • I gram = 10 decigrams = 100 centigrams = icoo milligrams... | |
 | Oscar Oldberg, Otto Augustus Wall - 1884 - 1236 pages
...gallon. The CUBIC CENTIMETER is equal to 16.231 US minims. The unit of weight of the metric system is the GRAM, which is the weight of one cubic centimeter of pure water at its greatest density. The gram is equal to 15.43234874 grains. To memorize this number to the extent... | |
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Tkt unit of weight is the GRAM, which is the weight of one cubic centimeter of pure water weighed in a vacuum at the temperature of 4 deg. Cent, or 39.2 deg. Fahr., which is about its temperature of maximum density. 
