dwt to g | Pennyweight to Gram Converter

Pennyweight

A pennyweight (dwt) is a unit of mass equal to 24 grains, 1⁄20 of a troy ounce, 1⁄240 of a troy pound, approximately 0.054857 avoirdupois ounce and exactly 1.55517384 grams. It is abbreviated dwt, d standing for denarius – (an ancient Roman coin), and later used as the symbol of an old British penny.

Gram

The gram (symbol: g) is the unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI). Definition of gram: Gram is defined as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre [1 cm³], and at the temperature of 4 °C. Presently, a gram is defined as one-thousandth part of a kilogram.

The gram is today the most widely used unit of measurement for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and grocery shopping worldwide. The Japanese 1 yen coin has a mass of 1 gram,[14] lighter than the British penny (3.56 g), the United States penny (2.5 g), the Euro cent (2.30 g), and the Australian 5 cent coin (2.80 g).

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