Stone to Carats (st to ct)

1 stone equals 31,751.4659 carats exactly.

1 stone = 31,751.4659 carats

How to convert stone to carats

To convert stone to carats, multiply the number of stone by 31,751.4659. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply carats by 0.00003149460888 (rounded).

carats = stone × 31,751.4659

Example: 10 stone = 317,514.659 carats.

About these units

Stone (st)

Imperial (British)Current unit

14 pounds (6.35 kg). Still the everyday unit for body weight in the UK and Ireland.

As the name says, the first stones were literal stones. People used them as weights, and surviving examples include Roman-era pieces made in multiples of the Roman pound and a 16th-century bronze one-stone weight bearing the English royal arms. The size was not fixed: a statute of about 1300 gave 5 pounds for glass, 8 for sugar and spices and 12 for lead, while in 1772 the Encyclopaedia Britannica noted that a stone of beef was 8 pounds in London, 12 in Hertfordshire and 16 in Scotland. Edward III set 14 pounds for wool and other goods in 1350.

The Weights and Measures Act 1835 clarified the legal trade units, with 14 pounds to the stone and 28 to the quarter. Trade use ended with metrication, in Ireland in 1983 and in the UK with the Weights and Measures Act 1985, yet the stone refuses to die. In Britain and Ireland people still say they weigh 11 stone 4, meaning 11 stone plus 4 pounds, or about 71.7 kg. It is also used in sports such as boxing, wrestling and horse racing. A single stone, at 6.35 kg, is a convenient chunk of body weight to talk about.

1 stone = 6.35029318 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Stone (unit); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)

Carat (ct)

Metric (SI)Current unit

Exactly 200 milligrams. The unit for weighing gemstones such as diamonds. Not to be confused with the karat, a measure of gold purity.

Jewellers once weighed stones against seeds. The word carat traces back to the Greek keration, meaning a carob seed, and reached English through Italian and Arabic. Carob seeds were used as balance weights for gems and gold, though their mass varies about as much as any seed does. Before 1907 each country had its own carat, ranging from roughly 187 to 216 milligrams. It was used for gold early on and for diamonds from the 1570s. An international carat of 205 mg was proposed in Paris in 1871, but the 200 mg metric carat won out.

The metric carat was adopted at the Fourth General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1907. France made it mandatory, the United States followed in 1913 and the United Kingdom in 1914. Today it is exactly 200 mg, so five carats make a gram, and it is divided into 100 points of 2 mg each; a diamond described as 25 points is a quarter carat. Carat is used for gemstones and pearls, and it should not be mixed up with karat, which measures the purity of gold and is a separate idea.

1 carat = 0.0002 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Carat (mass); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)

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