Quarters (UK) to Grams (qr to g)

1 quarter (UK) equals 12,700.58636 grams exactly.

1 quarter (UK) = 12,700.58636 grams

How to convert quarters (UK) to grams

To convert quarters (UK) to grams, multiply the number of quarters (UK) by 12,700.58636. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply grams by 0.00007873652221 (rounded).

grams = quarters (UK) × 12,700.58636

Example: 10 quarters (UK) = 127,005.8636 grams.

About these units

Quarter (UK) (qr)

Imperial (British)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)

28 pounds (12.7 kg), a quarter of a long hundredweight. A traditional British unit of weight.

Taking one fourth of a larger unit, as the name suggests, produced several quarters in British measure. The mass version is 28 pounds, a quarter of the 112 pound long hundredweight and two stone, which is roughly 12.7 kilograms. The Units of Measurement Regulations 1994 define it as 28 pounds.

A second quarter measured dry goods. Under the Weights and Measures Act 1824 a quarter of grain was eight bushels, or 64 imperial gallons, about 290.95 liters, a size known as the quarter of London since the Latin quarterium Londoniense of Magna Carta. The 1985 Act dropped it as a volume unit. The weight quarter lingers on old anvils and bells stamped in hundredweight, quarters and pounds: an anvil marked 1.1.8, for example, weighs 148 pounds. Four of them make a hundredweight, and eighty make a long ton.

1 quarter (UK) = 12.70058636 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Quarter (unit); Wikipedia: Hundredweight

Gram (g)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a kilogram. The standard unit for food quantities and small objects.

A gram was once defined as a small drop of the natural world. The French National Convention of 1795 set it as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube one hundredth of a metre on each side, a cubic centimetre. The reference temperature was first the melting point of ice and was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water, about 4 degrees Celsius. The word came into French as gramme, from Late Latin gramma, itself from the Greek for a letter or small mark; in Late Antiquity it meant about one twenty-fourth of an ounce.

The gram was the base unit of mass in the centimetre-gram-second system, but in 1960 the SI took the kilogram as its base unit, which made the gram one thousandth of it. That is why it appears in so many everyday places: it is the standard for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and shopping, and nutrition labels commonly list contents per 100 g. For a sense of scale, a small paper clip or a pen cap weighs about a gram, and a Japanese 1-yen coin is close to exactly that, while a US penny is around 2.5 g.

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gram; Wikipedia: Kilogram

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