Libra

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The third consists of three librae of vitriol, one of saltpetre, half a libra of asbestos, and half a libra of baked bricks.

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

The sixth method consists in heating together a bes of the copper and one-sixth of a libra each of sulphur, salt, and stibium.

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

If in each centumpondium of copper there was a third of a libra of silver, there would be in the whole of the centumpondia of base metal five-sixths of a libra of the precious metal.

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

In this operation he also makes fifteen centumpondia of "hard cakes poor in silver," in each centumpondium of which is a sixth of a libra of silver.

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

To this copper is added eight centumpondia of poor argentiferous lead, each centumpondium of which contains an uncia and a drachma of silver, or a total of three-quarters of a libra of silver.

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