Gross (unit)

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The (the) gros was a French weight measure in France and Switzerland .

There were three weight groups derived from the pound :

  • Heavyweight or gros poids ,
  • Mark weight or Poids de marc and
  • Lightweight or petit poids .

These were in the ratio of heavy weight = 1: market weight = 1 ⅛: light weight = 1 1/5.

The ounce was calculated at 8 gros. In Switzerland the majority was known as Quentchen . The majority weighed around 4 grams.

It had been known as a pharmacist's weight since 1732 and most of it was also called drachma. Different weights were the hallmark of the measure until the introduction of the kilogram around 1802. Now the pound was 500 grams , so that the ounce was 32 grams and the bulk 4 grams. The gran was rounded up from 0.0531 to 0.05 grams. For a long time, however, the old method was used in pharmacies to weigh on a 12 ounce basis per 357.8538 grams of trade pound.

Heavyweight

  • 1 pound = 18 ounces = 432 deniers (pennies) = 10,368 grams / grain = 550.6941 grams

lightweight

  • 1 pound = 15 ounces = 360 deniers (pennies) = 8,640 grams / grain = 458.9117 grams

Use for silk

Marrow weight

  • 1 pound = 16 ounces = 384 deniers (pennies) = 9216 grän / grain 489.5058 grams

The trade weight, also known as the Paris mark weight ( Poids de marc ), was the measure for wholesalers. Starting out was the pound with 489.5058 grams The dimensional chain was

  • 1 pound = 2 marks = 4 quarterons = 16 ounces = 128 gros = 9216 gren
  • 1 gros = 3.90625 grams

literature

  • Christian Noback , Friedrich Eduard Noback : Complete paperback of the coin, measure and weight relationships. Volume 1. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1851, pp. 280, 849
  • Johann Friedrich Krüger : Complete manual of the coins, measures and weights of all countries in the world. Gottfried Basse, Quedlinburg / Leipzig 1830, p. 116
  • Carl Günther Ludovici , Johann Christian Schedel: Newly opened Academy of Merchants, or encyclopedic merchant lexicon Breitkopf and Härtel, Leipzig 1798, p. 182

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav Wagner, Friedrich Anton Strackerjan: Compendium of the coin, measure, weight and exchange rate relationships of all states and trading cities on earth. Verlag Teubner, Leipzig 1855, p. 199
  2. ↑ Georg Kaspar Chelius : Measure and weight book. Jäger'schen book, paper and map dealer, Frankfurt am Main 1830, p. 37