The first shows the size of the caliber of the mould, for rockets of a pound weight, and below; and the second points out the size required for the caliber of moulds, from one pound to fifty pounds.
The conversion of wood into sugar, however remarkable it may seem, has been effected; and a pound weight of rags will, by the same process, make more than a pound weight of sugar.
Size of the caliber of moulds of a pound weight, and below to an ounce.
The balance can be regained by suspending an equivalent weight at the opposite end of the bar, or by applying a 2-pound weight at a point 3 inches to the left of F.
In the latter case a force of 1 pound actually balances a force of 2 pounds, but the 1-pound weight is twice as far from the point of suspension as is the 2-pound weight.
In England, no duty or seignorage is paid upon the coinage, and he who carries a pound weight or an ounce weight of standard gold bullion to the mint, gets back a pound weight or an ounce weight of gold in coin, without any deduction.
The earth may still weigh many millions of tons as regards the sun, but as regards a pound weightit only weighs sixteen ounces.
A pound weight on the surface of the earth weighs sixteen ounces, and all the mighty volume of our planet, with all its mountains, continents and seas, weighs only sixteen ounces on the surface of a pound weight.
What we call a pound weight is a mass of matter attracted by the earth on its surface with a force equal to the weight of sixteen ounces.
When a one-pound weight is suspended by a string, as stated in the foregoing, the attraction between the mass of the weight and the mass of the earth is balanced by the stress in the string.
The stress produced in a string carrying a one-pound weight at Newark is the unit of force.
That two shillings and sixpence per pound weight is making the said coin of very small value, the said coin ought not to weigh or exceed two shillings in each pound weight as the English Halfpence are.
If we put a 3-pound weight at A, a 4-pound weight at B and a 5-pound weight at C, the cords will come to rest in the position shown in Fig.
Now if we put a pound weight on each cord the two A and B will raise the weight C until the angles between the cords at O are all equal.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pound weight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
