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

Dosis repetend. 3tiis. 4tis. vel 6tis. horis—Eodem modo sit haustus cum spirit. mindereri uncia dimidiâ.

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

Another cement is made of a bes of brick dust, a quarter of refined salt, one and a half unciae of saltpetre, an uncia of sal-ammoniac, and half an uncia of rock salt.

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

In the same way, from eleven cartloads of quaternary cakes thrice roasted, he makes the "final" cakes, of which one centumpondium contains only half an uncia of silver.

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

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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir