dr\text{dr}

dram

Massexact by definition

The avoirdupois dram is one sixteenth of an ounce, exactly 1.7718451953125 grams. It survives in shotgun shell loadings, in some spice and flavouring trade, and in older US recipes.

Watch out: A shotgun shell marked "3 dram equivalent" does not contain three drams of anything. It means the load matches the recoil of three drams of black powder, and modern smokeless powder charges are a fraction of that mass.

1 dr\text{dr} 0.0017718452 kg\text{kg}
Where the unit came from

From the Greek drachma, a coin and a weight, by way of the Latin dragma. The apothecaries' system had a dram too, of 60 grains rather than 27.34, and the two coexisted for centuries in the same shops.

One dram in every mass unit

1.06703e+24unified atomic mass unit (dalton) (u)
1,771,850,000,000picogram (pg)
1,771,850,000nanogram (ng)
1,771,850microgram (μg)
1,771.85milligram (mg)
177.185centigram (cg)
27.3438grain (gr)
8.85923metric carat (ct)
1.77185gram (g)
1.13932pennyweight (dwt)
1dram (dr)this unit
0.0625ounce (oz)
0.0569661troy ounce (oz t)
0.00474718troy pound (lb t)
0.00390625pound (lb)
0.00177185kilogram (kg)
0.000279018stone (st)
0.00012141slug (slug)
0.0000390625US hundredweight (cwt)
0.0000348772UK long hundredweight (cwt (UK))
0.0000177185quintal (q)
0.00000195313US short ton (ton)
0.00000177185metric tonne (t)
0.00000174386UK long ton (long ton)
1.77185e-09kilotonne (kt)
1.77185e-12megatonne (Mt)
1.77185e-15gigatonne (Gt)
2.96682e-28Earth mass (Mearth)
8.91086e-34solar mass (Msun)