Zolotniks to Grams (zol to g)

1 zolotnik equals 4.265803958 grams (rounded).

1 zolotnik = 4.265803958 grams

How to convert zolotniks to grams

To convert zolotniks to grams, multiply the number of zolotniks by 4.265803958. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply grams by 0.2344223996 (rounded).

grams = zolotniks × 4.265803958

Example: 10 zolotniks = 42.65803958 grams.

About these units

Zolotnik (zol)

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

One 96th of a funt, about 4.266 g. A Russian unit used for gold and silver.

Zolotnik means the golden one. The name goes back to a coin that circulated in Kievan Rus until the 11th century and weighed about the same as the Byzantine solidus. As a unit it was in use from roughly the 10th century to the 20th, and it became the standard for working silver, much as the troy ounce serves precious metals elsewhere.

In the later Russian system it was one 96th of a funt, which gives about 4.2658 g, or roughly 65.8 grains. The same system split the zolotnik into 96 dolya, and three zolotniks made a lot, so the funt, lot, zolotnik and dolya formed a neat ladder of fine divisions.

Apothecaries used a lighter pound of 84 zolotniks, so the unit sometimes appears under different totals in pharmacy texts. It was retired with the other old Russian weights after 1918.

1 zolotnik = 0.004265803958 kilograms (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Zolotnik; Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement

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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