uncia
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The uncia into four sicilici, the sicilicus into thirty-six siliquae.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
A centumpondium weighs 70.6 lbs. avoirdupois, an uncia 412.2 Troy grains, therefore, this value is equal to 72 ounces 18 pennyweights per short ton.
From De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Agricola, Georgius
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 Agricola, Georgius
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 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
