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

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

Another cement is made of a bes of brick dust, a third of rock salt, an uncia of saltpetre, and half an uncia of refined salt.

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

And likewise they add two centumpondia of poor silver-lead, in each of which there is an uncia and a drachma of silver.

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