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Weight/Mass | Convert from once [France] to slinch |
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Common Weight Conversions Metric Weight Conversions Unit Definition (once [France]) The onça, once, oncia, onza is traditional names for the ounce unit in Romance languages. The French once equals 1/16 livre or about 30.59 grams (1.079 ounce). Unit Definition (slinch) The slinch is a unit of mass invented by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The unit is part of a system based on the pound of force and the inch. One slinch is the mass accelerated at one inch per second per second by a force of one pound; thus the slinch equals exactly 12 slugs or about 386.088 pounds (175.1268 kilograms). The word is a contraction of slug-inch. In the U.S. military aircraft industry, this unit is sometimes called a mug. It has also been called a snail.
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