Zolotniks to Ounces (zol to oz)
1 zolotnik equals 0.1504718065 ounces (rounded).
How to convert zolotniks to ounces
To convert zolotniks to ounces, multiply the number of zolotniks by 0.1504718065. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply ounces by 6.645763238 (rounded).
ounces = zolotniks × 0.1504718065
Example: 10 zolotniks = 1.504718065 ounces.
About these units
Zolotnik (zol)
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
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)
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