Gramme
Appearance
Gramme | |
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The mass o this pen cap is aboot 1 gram | |
Unit information | |
Unit seestem | SI derived unit |
Unit o | Mass |
Seembol | g |
Unit conversions | |
1 g in ... | ... is equal tae ... |
SI base units | 10-3 kilograms |
CGS units | 1 gram |
U.S. customary | 0.0353 unces |
The gramme (SI unit seembol: g) (Greek/Laitin ruit grámma) is a metric seestem unit o mass.
Oreeginally defined as "the absolute wicht o a volume o pure watter equal tae the cube o the hundrit pairt o a metre, an at the temperatur o meltin ice"[1] (later 4 °C), a gram is nou defined as ane ane-thoosandt o the SI base unit, the kilogram, or 1×10−3 kg, which itself is defined as bein equal tae the mass o a pheesical prototype preserved bi the Internaitional Bureau o Wechts an Meisurs.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Décret relatif aux poids et aux mesures Archived 2013-02-25 at the Wayback Machine, 1795