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Weight/Mass | Convert from packen [Russia] to cental |
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Common Weight Conversions Metric Weight Conversions Unit Definition (packen [Russia]) The packen is a traditional Russian unit of weight equal to 1200 funte, 30 pudi, 1083 pounds, or 491.4 kilograms. Unit Definition (cental) The cental is an alternate name in Britain for the U.S. hundredweight, which is equal to exactly 100 pounds (the British hundredweight is 112 pounds). Introduced by British merchants around 1850, the name was apparently coined after the model of the quintal. The cental has sometimes been confused with the centner.
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