单词 | assay centner |
释义 | > as lemmasassay (or docimastic) centner 2. Metallurgy. A unit of weight used in assaying metals, typically ranging between three and five grams. Also more fully assay (or docimastic) centner and variants. Now historical.Systems of weight used by assayers employed the same nomenclature as common systems of weight, but on a scale suitable for an assaying sample. ΚΠ 1683 J. Pettus tr. L. Ercker i. xxvii. 69 in Fleta Minor i File the Iron very small (which you do intend to assay) weigh of it half a Centner, and add to it a Centner of yellow Brimstone. 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 505 He tells us that from a Centner of Vitriolated Mercury only 44 [grains] of Running Mercury can be had. 1807 A. Aikin & C. R. Aikin Dict. Chem. & Mineral. II. 557 The German assayers and mineralogists have also the Docimastic Centner, which has generally the actual weight of one quentchen (equal to 56.34 grains Troy) but is subdivided into 100 docimastic pounds. 1865 W. A. Goodyear tr. T. Bodemann & B. Kerl Treat. Assaying 11 The absolute weight of the assay centner [Ger. Probiercentner] is generally taken equal to one quentchen of the civil weight = 3.654 grammes. 1974 Isis 65 393/2 The old assay centner or hundredweight was usually between 3 and 5 grams, about 1,000 times the smallest weight that the balances could detect. < as lemmas |
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