Meaning of metric ounce | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A metric approximation of the ounce; specifically:
2. 25 grams.
3. 30 grams.

Examples

“The new ounces would be all alike, representing 25 Gm. or CC., and would be from one-eighth to one-fifth less than the customary ounces. The metric ounce, 25.0; one fifth less than 1 apoth. ounce, 31.0. The metric ounce, 25.0, one-sixth less than 1 av. ounce, 28.35.”

“It would probably be convenient also to retain the ounce, the metric ounce being defined as equal to 25 grams, or one-twentieth of the metric pound.”

“When this is over, there seems no reason why a metric inch of twenty-five millimetres should not serve as well as our inch, a quarter-metre of ten metric inches as well as our foot, and a metric ounce of twenty-five grammes as well as our ounce.”

“Thirty grams or a metric ounce (the American ounce is 28 grams)”

“If we could get the Post Office Department to adopt the metric system, so that whenever any citizen of the United States desires to send a letter he will have to buy postage stamps of one or two cents — whatever it might be — for 30 grams of matter, the metric ounce, that would give us a start.”

“One 16-ounce pound of silver coin is legally equal to one 30-gram metric ounce of gold coin […]”

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