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 Kilogram
To Pound -- Pound To Kilogram Conversions
- On 7 April 1795, the gram was decreed in France to be equal to “the absolute
weight of a volume of water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of
the meter, at the temperature of melting ice.” The concept of using a specified
volume of water to define a unit measure of mass was first advanced by
the English philosopher John Wilkins in 1668. Since trade and commerce
typically involve items significantly more massive than one gram, and since
a mass standard made of water would be inconvenient and unstable, the regulation
of commerce necessitated the manufacture of a practical realization of
the water-based definition of mass. Accordingly, a provisional mass standard
was made as a single-piece, metallic artifact one thousand times more massive
than the gram—the kilogram. Historically, in different parts of the world,
at different points in time, and for different applications, the pound
(or its translation) has referred to broadly similar but not identical
standards of mass or force. |
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Agnostic Conversions! - Isn't it frustrating when someone tells you that
it's 30° Celsius, and you don't know have a clue to what that means,
because your brain is in Fahrenheit? Or,
you're in a dynamite clothing store in Milan, and you don't know what the
sizes are because everything is in Italian sizes, which differ from the
size designation you're accustomed to. We've got an index here with 16
pages of conversion engines. They are simple web engines that will
convert Metric to Imperial and also do other types of conversions.
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Monk. We are convinced that there is nothing more obscene than the
lust to convert. Hence; in creating this page of 16 conversion engines,
we designed them all to be agnostic and unpresumptuous, with respect for
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