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 Agricola, Georgius
The counters were made of various materials, ivory principally, “Adeo nulla uncia nobis est eboris, etc.”
From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Steele, Robert
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 Agricola, Georgius
One-half uncia of silver would be 12 ozs.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
From time to time small pieces of sulphur, enveloped in or mixed with wax, are dropped into six librae of the molten copper, and consumed; the sulphur weighs half an uncia and a sicilicus.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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