Zolotniks to Pounds (zol to lb)
1 zolotnik equals 0.009404487907 pounds (rounded).
How to convert zolotniks to pounds
To convert zolotniks to pounds, multiply the number of zolotniks by 0.009404487907. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply pounds by 106.3322118 (rounded).
pounds = zolotniks × 0.009404487907
Example: 10 zolotniks = 0.09404487907 pounds.
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
Pound (lb)
Exactly 0.45359237 kg, divided into 16 ounces. The standard unit of weight in the US and common in the UK.
Why is pound abbreviated lb? The answer is Roman. The English word comes from the Latin libra pondo, roughly the weight measured in libra, and the symbol keeps the first word. The Roman libra was divided into 12 unciae. The avoirdupois pound of 16 ounces came into general use around 1300 and was initially equal to 6,992 troy grains; under Elizabeth I it was redefined as 7,000 grains. The UK's Weights and Measures Act 1878 set the imperial standard pound as a platinum cylinder, and the troy pound was abolished for trade the following year.
Today the pound is defined from the kilogram. The International Yard and Pound Agreement of 1959 fixed it at exactly 0.45359237 kg, and the UK's Weights and Measures Act 1963 wrote the same figure into law. Pounds remain the everyday unit for body weight, groceries and shipping in the United States and are widely used in the UK. The word also survives in odd places: a six-pounder cannon was named for the weight of its shot, not its own.
1 pound = 0.45359237 kilograms (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Pound (mass); NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)
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