uncia
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Five of these are placed at the same time in the furnace in which silver-lead is liquated from copper; these drip three centumpondia of lead, each of which contains half an uncia of silver.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
The Moslem system is evidently borrowed from the Roman "as" and "uncia."
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 03 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
If, however, the copper contains some lead, add one uncia of lead; if it contains iron, add two unciae.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
This is the Felis uncia, allied to the panther and the cheetah.
From Milton's Comus by William Bell
Another is made of half a libra of brick dust, a third of a libra of rock salt, an uncia and a half of vitriol, and one uncia of saltpetre.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
With each libra of this powdered compound one and a half unciae of the copper is gradually sprinkled into a hot crucible, and it is stirred rapidly and frequently with an iron rod.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
Then the silver is sprinkled with two unciae of that powdered compound and is stirred.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
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 Georgius Agricola
As the Roman libra contains 12 unciae and the German pfundt 16 untzen, the actual weights of these latter quantities are still further apart—the former 4946 and the latter 7219 Troy grains.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
If, however, the copper contains some lead, add one uncia of lead; if it contains iron, add two unciae.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georgius Agricola
