Chilogramme

The distillation is continued by putting fire under the retort; and as soon as two chilogrammes have passed over, another ten chilogrammes of fresh alcohol at 40 degrees are introduced into the mixture, drop by drop, regulating as much as possible the quantity introduced, by that which passes into the receiver. This process is to be continued until there have been drawn off 15 chilogrammes of liquid, which will give, on being rectified in the water bath, 8 chilogrammes of pure ether, and some alcohol of an ethereal scent very proper to be made use of over again.

It appears, however, from an official Report, obligingly communicated to us by Dr. Kelly, that the actual standard chilogramme has been found to contain only 15433 English grains.

A. 20. Signor Lana. / The Sardinian standards have been compared with the metre and the chilogramme.

The Gramme is equal to 15.434 grains Troy, / […] / A chilogramme is 1000 grammes, = 15434.0000 / A myriagramme is 10000 grammes, = 154340.0000 / All the preceding French weights and measures are deduced from some decimal proportion of the metre. Thus, the chilogramme corresponds wit the contents of a cubic vessel of pure water at the lowest temperature, the side of which vessel is the tenth part of the metre, (the decimetre,) and the gramme answers to the like contents of a cubic vessel, the side of which is the hundredth part of the metre, (the centimetre;) for the contents of all cubic vessels are to each other in the triplicate ratio of their sides.

If a chilogramme (kilogramme) of water fall through 772 feet, its temperature will rise one degree Fahrenheit. To discover, then, from what greater height a chilogramme of water must fall to raise its temperature to one degree centigrade, the following proportion will suffice:—100 : 180 : : 772 : 1389.6. But 1389 feet are equal to 423 metres; thus the mechanical equivalent of heat, according to the French system, is 423 metres, by falling through which a chilogramme of water rises through one degree centigrade. […] In the ascending scale a thousand grammes is called a kilogramme or chilogramme. The chilogramme is something less than 2+¹⁄₄ lb. imperial, or consists of 15432.3 English grains. The chilogramme is the commercial unit of weight in France, as the gramme is the basis of scientific weights.

Six weights in she-goat forms with a ring on their back; they were used to weigh the meat of this animal. The largest is worth our chilogramme. (Pompeii).

We did this by multiplying together the three measurements (L., B., and T.) in millimetres of the print and calculating the value of this parallelopiped, in relation to a chilogramme of the body weight.

This is the aes rude called also aes infectum (unwrought bronze); many of these pieces are preserved in our museums varying in weight from a few grammes to a chilogramme and more. These are the pieces called raudera, rauduscula, rudera.