| 11. | The feather fibers are much finer so you get much more absorption per unit of weight,
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| 12. | "' Ship load "'is a United Kingdom unit of weight for coal equal to 949, 760 keels.
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| 13. | In medicine the Americans use " grains " as their unit of weight for pills and such.
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| 14. | Carat-" Carat " is derived from a natural unit of weight : the seeds of a carob tree.
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| 15. | :It's usually in pounds or other units of weight, just as fuel for ships is measured in tons.
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| 16. | This means, compared to other substances, it can store more heat per unit of weight ( and volume ).
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| 17. | The baht is also a unit of weight for gold and is commonly used in jewellers and goldsmiths in Thailand.
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| 18. | French scientists such as Antoine Lavoisier worked to replace the archaic units of weights and measures by a coherent scientific system.
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| 19. | Although the Pound ( mass ) can be used as a unit of weight, this is also true of the kilogram.
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| 20. | The Mesopotamian shekel was a unit of weight, and relied on the mass of something like 160 gold and silver coins.
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