 ... containing ten pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches...  the farmers magazine - Page 1381823Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Guy - 1827 - 226 pages
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 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 pages
...the gallon, .undejr the name of the Imperial standard gaUon; and that it contain, ten pounds, pownds, avoirdupois weight, of distilled water, weighed in air, at the temperature of 62°, the barometer being at 30 inches, and that this be the unit, and only standard measure of capacity.... | |
 | Esq. James Watson - 1828 - 602 pages
...standard measure of capacity, as well for liquids as for dry goods not measured by heaped measure, shall be the gallon, containing ten pounds avoirdupois...distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of sixty-two degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at thirty inches; and that n measure... | |
 | Robert Brunton - 1828 - 222 pages
...which the Standard Troy Pound shall contain 5760. STANDARD GALLON. The Standard Gallon shall contain 10 Pounds Avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air, at the temperature of 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches. STANDARD FOR HEAPED MEASURE. The Standard for heaped... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1828 - 410 pages
...wherein the standard measure for liquids is defined, for the gallon, to contain "10 pounds, avoirdupoise weight, of distilled water, weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer :" so that you will perceive, from these remarks, the imperial... | |
 | 1863 - 986 pages
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 | Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 614 pages
...The standard measure of capacity, as well for liquids as for dry goods not measured by heap measure, shall be THE GALLON, containing ten pounds avoirdupois...distilled water (weighed in air at the temperature of 02° Fabr., barometer at 30 in.), and such measure shall he the imperial standard gallon, and shall... | |
 | Alexander Ingram - 1830 - 458 pages
...standard for measuring both liquid and dry goods is declared to be the imperial gallon, containing 10 pounds avoirdupois weight of distilled water weighed in air at the temperature of 62 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, the barometer being at 30 inches ; each avoirdupois pound containing... | |
 | Library, John Baxter - 1830 - 594 pages
...for dry goods not measured by heap measure, shall be THE GALLON, containing ten pounds avoir, dupois weight of distilled water (weighed in air at the temperature of 62° Fahr., barometer at 30 in.), and such measure shall be the imperial standard gallon, and shall be the... | |
 | John Timbs - 1831 - 302 pages
...gallon, containing lOlbs. avoirdupoise weight, (7000 gr.=l Ib.) of distilled water, weighed in the air, at the temperature of 62° of Fahrenheit's thermometer ; the barometer being at 30 inches. The capacity of this gallon is 277.274 cubic inches. Hoffman thus sums up the properties of pure water... | |
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