Gram

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The gram (originally gramme;

unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one thousandth of a kilogram
.

Originally defined as of 1795 as "the absolute

the temperature of melting ice",[2]
the defining temperature (≈0 °C) was later changed to 4 °C, the temperature of maximum density of water.

By the late 19th century, there was an effort to make the

base unit the kilogram and the gram a derived unit. In 1960, the new International System of Units defined a gram as one one-thousandth of a kilogram (i.e., one gram is 1×10−3 kg). The kilogram, as of 2019, is defined by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures from the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant (h).[3][4]

Official SI symbol

The only unit symbol for gram that is recognised by the International System of Units (SI) is "g" following the numeric value with a space, as in "640 g" to stand for "640 grams" in the English language. The SI disallows use of abbreviations such as "gr" (which is the symbol for grains),[5]: C-19  "gm" ("g⋅m" is the SI symbol for gram-metre) or "Gm" (the SI symbol for gigametre).

History

The word gramme was adopted by the French National Convention in its 1795 decree revising the metric system as replacing the gravet (introduced in 1793 simultaneously with a base measure called grave, of which gravet was a subdivision). Its definition remained that of the weight of a cubic centimetre of water.[6][7]

French gramme was taken from the

oboli),[8] corresponding to about 1.14 modern grams. This use of the term is found in the carmen de ponderibus et mensuris ("poem about weights and measures") composed around 400 AD.[a]
There is also evidence that the Greek γράμμα was used in the same sense at around the same time, in the 4th century, and survived in this sense into Medieval Greek,[10] while the Latin term died out in Medieval Latin and was recovered in Renaissance scholarship.[b]

The gram was the base unit of mass in the 19th-century

SI base units
in 1960.

Uses

One gram of amphetamines (the unit often used for street retail)

The gram is the most widely used unit of measurement for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and grocery shopping worldwide.[11][12] Liquid ingredients are often measured by volume rather than mass.

Many standards and legal requirements for

nutrition labels
on food products require relative contents to be stated per 100 g of the product, such that the resulting figure can also be read as a percentage.

Conversion factors

A container of Wellcome-brand cocaine, containing 1 ounce or 28.3 grams (note the non-standard abbreviation gm.).
  • 1 gram (g) ≈ 15.43236 grains (gr)
  • 1 grain (gr) ≈ 0.0647989 grams
  • 1 avoirdupois ounce (oz) ≈ 28.3495 grams
  • 1
    troy ounce
    (ozt) = 31.1034768 g (exact, by definition)
  • 100 grams (g) ≈ 3.52740 ounces (oz)
  • 1 carat (ct) = 0.2 grams
  • 1 gamma (γ) = 10−6 grams[13][14]
  • 1 undecimogramme = 1 "eleventh-gram" = 10−11 grams in the historical quadrant–eleventh-gram–second system (
    QES system) a.k.a. hebdometre–undecimogramme–second system (HUS system) [15]
  • 500 grams (g) = 1 jin in the Chinese units of measurement.

Comparisons

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The date and authorship of this Late Latin didactic poem are both uncertain; it was attributed to Priscian but is now attributed to Rem(m)ius Favinus/Flav(in)us.[9] The poem's title is reflected in the French phrase poids et mesures ("weights and mesures") in the title of the 1795 National Convention decree, Décret relatif aux poids et aux mesures that introduced the gram, and indirectly in the name of the General Conference on Weights and Measures responsible for the modern definition of the metric units.
  2. Hagenau, together with works by Celsius, Priscian
    and Johannes Caesarius; Aurelij Cornelij Celsi, De re medica, libri octo eruditissimi. Q. Sereni Samonici Praecepta medica, uersibus hexametris. Q. Rhemnij Fannij Palaemonis, De ponderibus [et] mensuris, liber rarus [et] utilissimus

References

  1. ^ "Weights and Measures Act 1985 (c. 72)". The UK Statute Law Database. Office of Public Sector Information. Archived from the original on 12 September 2008. Retrieved 26 January 2011. §92.
  2. ^ "Décret relatif aux poids et aux mesures" (in French). 1795. Archived from the original on 25 February 2013.
  3. ^ Draft Resolution A "On the revision of the International System of units (SI)" to be submitted to the CGPM at its 26th meeting (2018) (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2018, retrieved 17 May 2020
  4. ^ Decision CIPM/105-13 (October 2016) Archived 24 August 2017 at the Wayback Machine. The day is the 144th anniversary of the Metre Convention.
  5. OCLC 58927093
    . Retrieved 30 June 2012.
  6. ^ "Décret relatif aux poids et aux mesures du 18 germinal an 3 (7 avril 1795)" [Decree of 18 Germinal, year III (April 7, 1795) regarding weights and measures]. Grandes lois de la République (in French). Digithèque de matériaux juridiques et politiques, Université de Perpignan. Archived from the original on 10 May 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2011.
  7. ^ Convention nationale, décret du 1er août 1793, ed. Duvergier, Collection complète des lois, décrets, ordonnances, règlemens avis du Conseil d'état, publiée sur les éditions officielles du Louvre, vol. 6 (2nd ed. 1834), p. 70 Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine. The metre (mètre) on which this definition depends was itself defined as the ten-millionth part of a quarter of Earth's
    traditional units as 3 pieds
    , 11.44 lignes (a ligne being the 12th part of an pouce (inch), or the 144th part of a pied.
  8. ^ Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary s.v. "gramma" Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, 1879
  9. ISBN 019866172X
    .
  10. A Greek-English Lexicon (revised and augmented edition, Oxford, 1940) s.v. γράμμα Archived 2015-07-17 at the Wayback Machine, citing the 10th-century work Geoponica
    and a 4th-century papyrus edited in L. Mitteis, Griechische Urkunden der Papyrussammlung zu Leipzig, vol. i (1906), 62 ii 27.
  11. ISBN 978-1845376192. Retrieved 20 November 2014. Most of the world uses the metric system to weigh and measure. This book puts metric first, followed by imperial because the US uses it (with slight modifications which need not concern us).[permanent dead link
    ]
  12. ISBN 978-0-470-19752-3
    . Retrieved 20 April 2011. The system of measurement used in the United States is complicated. Even when people have used the system all their lives, they still sometimes have trouble remembering things like how many fluid ounces are in a quart or how many feet are in a mile. ... The United States is the only major country that uses almost exclusively the complex system of measurement we have just described.
  13. ^ 5th SI Brochure (1985), p. 78
  14. ^ "NIST Special Publication 811 – NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: Units Outside the SI". NIST. 28 January 2016. Archived from the original on 12 August 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  15. ^ "System of Measurement Units – Engineering and Technology History Wiki". ethw.org. 24 April 2012. Archived from the original on 29 April 2018. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
  16. ^ "Circulating Coin Designs". Japan Mint. Archived from the original on 18 September 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2010.


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