Chocolate weight

The chocolate weight , in the old spelling and terminology chocolate weight , was a Viennese unit of mass that only applied to chocolate . In Vienna the measure of weight was only 7/8 of the Viennese pound of the commercial weight. It was equated to 28 Loth / Lot. This determination was approved by an edict of December 6, 1781.

The pound of chocolate weight was equal to 490.0105 grams (= 490.0115 grams)

literature

Society of learned and practical merchants: General encyclopedia for merchants and manufacturers as well as for businessmen in general. Verlag Otto Wigand, Leipzig 1838, p. 784

Individual evidence

^ Georg Vega: Lectures on mathematics. Beck's University Bookstore. Vienna 1838, Volume 1, p. 39
↑ Benjamin Scholz, Joseph Franz von Jacquin : Beginnings of physics as preparation for studying chemistry. Verlag der Camesina'schen Buchhandlung, Vienna 1816, p. 143 ( limited preview in Google book search)

[1] Georg Vega: Lectures on mathematics. Beck's University Bookstore. Vienna 1838, Volume 1, p. 39

[2] Benjamin Scholz, Joseph Franz von Jacquin : Beginnings of physics as preparation for studying chemistry. Verlag der Camesina'schen Buchhandlung, Vienna 1816, p. 143 ( limited preview in Google book search)