With her small frame, the merest suggestion of avoirdupois would have done; yet she carries off the feat almost as a challenge.
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To alleviate confusion, it is typical when publishing non-avoirdupois weights to mention the name of the system along with the unit.
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The larger avoirdupois pound for goods of commerce might have been based on volume of water which has a higher bulk density than grain.
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In Hong Kong, one candareen is 0.3779936375 grams and, in the Weights and Measures Ordinance, it is ounces avoirdupois.
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According to the commission, Sweden received 30.4 tons ( 33.4 avoirdupois tons ) of gold from Germany in 1940-1944.
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The " Weights and Measures Act 1855 " ( 18 & 19 Victoria C72 ) made the avoirdupois pound the primary unit of mass.
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The table of imperial avoirdupois mass is the same as the United States table up to 1 pound, but above that point the tables differ.
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The rules for participating in the City and County of San Francisco's fine-tuning fiscal follies approach the avoirdupois of the Bakersfield white pages.
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"Dram " is also used as a measure of the powder charge in a shotgun shell, representing the equivalent of black powder in drams avoirdupois.
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But the exact size of the avoirdupois pound was set to a round 7, 000 talk ) 05 : 24, 4 October 2016 ( UTC)
