Physics:Esterlin

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Short description: Obsolete netherlandic unit of mass, stands for gram


The esterlin is an obsolete netherlandic unit of mass and stands for gram. It also was a unit of mass for gold in France weighing 28 ½ Grain.[1] The place of the unit in the netherlandic unit-chain was

  • 1 livre or pond/pound = 2 mark = 16 once = 320 esterlin = 1280 felins = 10240 aß = 1 pond troy of Holland[2]
  • 1 pond = 320 esterlin = 49.215,18 centigram[3]

In Belgium, it was valid that 1 livre = 1000 esterlin = 1000 gram[4]

References

  1. Kaltschmidt, Jacob Heinrich (1870). "Neuestes und vollständigstes Fremdwörterbuch zur Erklärung aller aus fremden Sprachen entlehnten Wörter und Ausdrücke".
  2. Homans, Isaac Smith Jr. (1859). "A cyclopedia of commerce and commercial navigation, with maps and engravings".
  3. Chelius, Georg Kaspar (1830). "Maß- und Gewichtsbuch".
  4. Mendelssohn, M. (1859). "Handbuch der Münz-, Maß- und Gewichtskunde unter Berücksichtigung des neuen Münz- und Gewichts-Systems, mit ausführlichen Reduktions-Tabellen".