uncia

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Five cakes are placed at the same time in the furnace in which argentiferous lead is liquated from copper, and from these are made lead which contains half an uncia of silver to the centumpondium.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

Another way is to take two unciae of prepared ore, five drachmae of roasted copper, one uncia of glass, or glass-galls reduced to powder, a semi-uncia of salt, and mix them.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

A centumpondium weighs 70.6 lbs. avoirdupois, an uncia 412.2 Troy grains, therefore, this value is equal to 72 ounces 18 pennyweights per short ton.

From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius

"Dicat films Albini: si de quincunce remota est uncia, quid superat? poteras dixisse." "triens." "eu! rem poteris servare tuam."

From Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by Fowler, W. Warde

Dosis ab uncia i. ad unc. iv. bis ter. quaterve die.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald