Ounces to Poods (oz to pood)
1 ounce equals 0.00173066751 poods (rounded).
How to convert ounces to poods
To convert ounces to poods, multiply the number of ounces by 0.00173066751. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply poods by 577.811737 (rounded).
poods = ounces × 0.00173066751
Example: 10 ounces = 0.0173066751 poods.
About these units
Ounce (oz)
One sixteenth of a pound, exactly 28.349523125 g. Used for food, mail and consumer goods in the US and UK.
A twelfth part is what ounce originally meant. It comes from the Roman uncia, one twelfth of the Roman pound, a word that also gave English the inch. The abbreviation oz does not come from English at all but from the Italian onza or oncia. Over the centuries many regions and trades used different ounces: the English Tower ounce of 29.16 g was abolished by Henry VIII in 1527, and the Dutch ons was redefined as exactly 100 g in 1820.
The avoirdupois ounce used for everyday goods is one sixteenth of a pound, exactly 28.349523125 g or 437.5 grains, the standard in the US and under the UK imperial system. It is not the same as the troy ounce for precious metals, and neither is the fluid ounce, which measures volume. Ounces still describe portions such as steaks and burgers, and they show up in unexpected places: fabric is graded by weight per area, so a 16 oz denim is a heavy cloth, and the copper on a circuit board is specified in ounces, where 1 oz is roughly 34.7 micrometres thick.
1 ounce = 0.02834952313 kilograms (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Ounce; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)
Pood (pood)
40 funts, about 16.38 kg. Used for grain, metals and trade goods in Russia into the 20th century; kettlebells are still sold in poods.
Pood is a Russian borrowing from the Latin pondus, meaning weight, and it is one of the oldest named Russian units: a Novgorod charter of 1134 to 1135 already mentions it. For centuries merchants quoted grain, metals, hemp and tallow by the pood, and grain output was still reported in poods on a Soviet stamp in 1959.
From 1899 it was set at about 16.38 kg, and the figure used here is 16.3807 kg, or 40 funts and about 36.1 pounds. Formal abolition came in the 1920s, though the word stayed in common use for decades afterwards, and the idiom sto pudov, a hundred poods, now means absolute certainty.
The best-known survivor is the kettlebell. Traditional Russian kettlebells are made in multiples and fractions of 16 kg, one pood, so a 24 kg bell is called a pood and a half.
1 pood = 16.3806872 kilograms (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Pood; Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement
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