 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...carats of 12 grains each, cither nal *¡r merely proportional, like the assayer's weights ; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 carats fine, it is to be understood that, in a mass weighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...carats of 12 grains each, either real or merely proportional, like the assayer'a weights ; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 carats fine, it is to be understood that, in a mass neighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1821 - 436 pages
...carats of twelve grains each, either real, or merely proportional, like the assayer"s weights ; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 carats fine, it is to be understood, that, in a mass weighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1827 - 904 pages
...carats of twelve grains each, either real, or merely proportional, like the assayer's weights ; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 estate fine, it Is to be understood, that in a mass weighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 852 pages
...carats of twelve grains each, either real, or merely proportional, like the assayer's weights; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be twenty-three carats fine, it is to be understood, thai in a mass weighing twenty-four carats, the quantity... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Chemistry - 1831 - 980 pages
...carats of twelve grains each, cither real, or merely proportional, like tbe assayer's weights ; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 carats fine, it is to be understood, that in a mass weighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Industries - 1844 - 756 pages
...carats of 12 grains each, either real, or merely proportional, like the assayer's weights ; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 carats fine, it is to be understood, that in a mass, weighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1849 - 252 pages
...which, the mass spoken of is supposed to weigh twenty-four carats, of twelve grains each : and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be twenty-two carats fine (which is standard), it is implied that twenty-two twenty-fourths are pure gold, and two twenty-fourths... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 972 pages
...Zilversmeden " by Stratingh, Groningen, 1821. «2 proportional, like the assayer's weights; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 carats fine, it is to be understood that, in a mass weighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 974 pages
...; in expressing which, the mass spoken of is supposed to weigh 24 camts, of 12 grains each; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 22 c;irats fine (or standard), it is implied that 22-24ths are pure gold, and 2-24ths alloy. In the... | |
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... weights ; and the pure gold is called fine. Thus, if gold be said to be 23 carats fine, it is to be understood, that, in a mass weighing 24 carats, the quantity of pure gold amounts to 23 carats. In such small works as cannot be assayed by scraping... 