The pound is the same there and here.
Now, the troy pound is different with 12 troy ounces to the pound and
each ounce being a few grammes heavier.
So, what weighs more,a
pound of feathers or a pound of gold?
What is heavier, an ounce of
feathers or an ounce of gold?
I love asking the above
questions to people...they usually think I'm asking them a trick
question and end up saying they are both the same.
Well, an
ounce of gold weighs more than an ounce of feathers and a pound of
feathers weighs more than a pound of gold. That answer usually
surprises them because they don't realize that gold is weighed with
troy weights, not the pound & ounce they are used to weighing
everyday things with.
1 pound (av) = ~ 453.592 g
1 pound troy = ~ 373.242 g
1 ounce (av) = ~ 28.349 5 g
1 ounce troy = ~ 31.103 5 g
Richard
D'OH!!!!!
Actually...in the UK at any rate, 400 grams is closer to 14.25 oz!!
Demonstrates rather neatly how complex it can be converting metric to imperial.
It would probably be different again in the US. There is 16 oz to a pound in the UK. I can't remember....is it different in the US? :-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" < [email protected]>
Cc: "USMA" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 7:11 PM
Subject: [USMA:36715] Re: at the butcher
> Pierre Abbat wrote:
>
> "I looked at the meat
> counter for a package of some cut I'm interested in. Finding none, I ask for
> 400 grams of boneless chicken thighs.
>
> "The butcher pulls out the tray of chicken thighs. "What's that in ounces or
> pounds?"
>
> I would say approximately 12.5 ounces. :-)
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pierre Abbat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:43 AM
> Subject: [USMA:36714] at the butcher
>
>
> > Yesterday I went shopping. The buses for the Home Economist and Talley's came
> > at the same time and I had an impulse to go to Talley's. I looked at the meat
> > counter for a package of some cut I'm interested in. Finding none, I ask for
> > 400 grams of boneless chicken thighs.
> >
> > The butcher pulls out the tray of chicken thighs. "What's that in ounces or
> > pounds?"
> >
> > "I dunno." I have the conversion factor in a program, but it's not something I
> > keep in my head.
> >
> > He consults with some other people trying to figure it out. Meanwhile I
> > remember seeing a can labeled "15 oz 425 g", but he's too busy talking with
> > them. He weighs some chicken thighs and wraps them up.
> >
> > I stuff some more food in my bag. A while later, I return to the meat counter
> > and pull out a four-pack of frozen açaí pulp, 100 grams each. "I should have
> > gotten these first. They're 400 grams."
> >
> > I got home and weighed the package. It was 473 grams, including the paper.
> >
> > phma
> >
>
