DIR Return Create A Forum - Home
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Ride The Wind!!!
  HTML https://ridethewind.createaforum.com
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       *****************************************************
   DIR Return to: Tips & Conversion Factors & Metric Equivale...
       *****************************************************
       #Post#: 341--------------------------------------------------
       How Many Ounces In A Pound!!
   DIR By: Hummingbird
       Date: August 18, 2012, 2:33 pm
       ---------------------------------------------------------
       Ounces1 and pounds2 are widely-used as units of weight
       measurement in the USA, Canada, Great Britain and some other
       countries. The ounce is especially popular in old cooking books.
       There are imperial and US ounces and the latter is 4% larger.
       You should not confuse dry ounces with fluid ones which are used
       to measure volume.
       Are There 12 or 16 Ounces in One Pound?
       The pound was once used almost in all the European countries,
       but it was replaced by grams after the adoption of the
       international metric system. Pounds and ounces are common units
       but if you ask people how many ounces there are in one pound,
       you can get two different answers – 12 or 16 ounces. And both of
       them will be right ones.
       The point is that there are two main weight systems: Avoirdupois
       and Troy. According to the Avoirdupois Weight, one pound equals
       to 16 ounces. But the Troy Weight states that one pound is
       divided into 12 ounces. In the USA and Great Britain the
       avoirdupois pound is used (though you might have never heard its
       full name). So in these countries “sixteen” will be the right
       answer to the question, “How many ounces are there in a pound?”
       There are also some other weight systems (Tower, Merchant,
       London, etc) that have their own definitions of this unit. The
       chart below will give help you to understand how many ounces,
       grains and grams are in each variant of the pound.
       Ounces Grains Metric Grams
       1 Avoirdupois pound 16 7000 454
       1 Troy pound 12 5760 373
       1 Tower pound 12 5400 350
       1 Merchant pound 15 6750 437
       1 London pound 16 7200 467
       1.Ounce (abbr. oz) is a widely-spread unit of mass or volume
       (fluid ounce), which is used in various systems and has several
       definitions. The most regular definition of this unit is
       equivalent to approximately 28 grams.
       2. Pound (abbr. lb) is a general unit of mass, which is used
       mostly in the USA, Great Britain, Canada and some other
       countries. It has many definitions, but the most known of them
       is equal to 454 metric grams.
       *****************************************************
       Page 1 of 1