Interesting Video On Telling Real Vs. Fake Silver Bullion

That was one of the worst how to videos ever.

Wanna see if its real silver? acid test. Done GG.

I was just amazed at how quick they were at destructive testing that proves nothing at all.

If 99.9% of the population has zero idea of what a grain is, they should do something about their ignorance. Grains are the universal weight, identical in both avoirdupois and troy, and have been used around the world for thousands of years.

Not in Asia it isn't.



Any scale is directly convertible with any other scale through the use of fractions, or enough decimal points. "Conveniently" is what you are referring to I think. Grams is the SI unit for measuring weight "scientifically", and has largely not been adopted for industrial use (in North America at least) again because of the convenience to stick to customs.

1 grain is precisely 64.79891 milligrams
so 1 grain is directly convertible in milligrams or grams or ounces or the chinese liǎng
Given enough units anything can be precisely measured (except for pi, or the speed of light, but those aren't exactly "things") so it's convention, standards, and convenience more than anything

Let me approach this slightly differently.

I invent a new system of weight. The base unit is the Biggfredd. It is precisely 20 stone or 280 av pounds. It can also be expressed in kg, but only by conversion, accurate to however many decimal places you choose.

It is possible to weigh PM by grams, or to convert grains of PM to grams, but the latter isn't as accurate as grains. The reason for this is grams are a new system of mass measurements, invented around 150 years ago.

Grains, OTOH, are the original way to measure mass, and have been around for five millenia or so. Both troy and avoirdupois systems use the same grain, and not a conversion from grams, which didn't exist for 98% of the history of PM.

My point is that, as you discovered, if you are going to reload bullets, you need to learn about grains, because that's the standard for measurement.

If you're going to invest thousands of dollars in PM, you need to know that 15 grains is not close to a half ounce.

Not correct.

480 doites = 20 mites = 1 grain

1 troy pound = 12 troy ounces = 240 pennyweights = 1821 carats = 5760 grains = 115,200 mites = 2,765,000 doites

1 doite = 1/24 mite = 1/480 grain = 0.000135 gram

For all practical purposes no one needs better accuracy than that.

http://letconversion.com/weight-con...ds/to-carats sez:

1 troy pound = 1866.208608 carat

If it was a direct conversion, like 1 gram = 5 carats, there wouldn't be two possible answers.