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	Encyclopedia: Avoirdupois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the avoirdupois system, all units are multiples or fractions of the pound, which is now defined as 0.45359237 kg in most of the English-speaking world since 1959.
		This relationship between avoirdupois pounds and troy grains has held true since the avoirdupois pound was redefined in terms of the troy units in the reign of Henry VIII, abandoning independent standards which had been measured as about 7002 grains troy.
		If neither "avoirdupois" nor "troy" is specified, the international pound (avoirdupois) is meant and is by law the only proper definition in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada; the troy pound has been officially abandoned in the United Kingdom.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Avoirdupois (1144 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Avoirdupois [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name derives from from an Old French term meaning literally "goods of weight", referring to goods sold by weight (as opposed to by the piece, for example).
		In the avoirdupois system, all units are multiples or fractions of the pound, which is defined as 0.45359237 kg in most of the English-speaking world since 1959.
		Britain, when it began to use this system, added the stone, which was eventually defined as fourteen avoirdupois pounds.
	encyclozine.com /Avoirdupois (291 words)

	AllRefer.com - avoirdupois weights, Weight & Measure (Weights And Measures) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - avoirdupois weights, Weight & Measure (Weights And Measures) - Encyclopedia
		avoirdupois weights[av´´urdupoiz´] Pronunciation Key: see English units of measurement.
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	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/X/X-avoirdup.html (124 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Numismatics
		The imperial coin-cabinet at Vienna contains one of these pieces, probably the largest medal in existence, weighing about 15 1/2 lbs.
		avoirdupois; and adorned with the portraits of forty ancestors of the Emperor Leopold I, in whose presence the transmutation is supposed to have taken place.
		Thus the numerous and manifold purposes for which the medal has been employed faithfully reflect the cultural conditions which led to its coinage and are a source of information that has not yet been fully appreciated.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11152a.htm (6895 words)

	Pound avoirdupois - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Pound avoirdupois (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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