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Show Grain as a Weight. , The name "grain" as a weight originated orig-inated in a curious way. The old Eng- I llsh pound was equivalent to "the weight of 7,080 grains of wheat, taken I from the middle of the ear." This gives 480 to each of the 16 ounces of which the pound was composed. Although Al-though the standard Is now entirely 'different, the fact that there are still 480 grains to the ounce Troy and the ounce apothecaries' weight carries us back to the time of tbo Conquest, and shows us how the name grain originated. |