Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A metric unit of mass or weight equal to one-tenth (10-1) of a gram.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the metric system, a weight of one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.54 grains troy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A weight in the metric system; one tenth of a gram, equal to 1.5432 grains avoirdupois.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun metrology An
SI unit of mass equal to 10−1grams .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun 1/10 gram
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some unhappy morphine addicts get to the point of standing a dose of 20 grams, whereas one decigram is dangerous in a normal subject.
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After thousands of crystallizations, Marie finally - from several tons of the original material - isolated one decigram of almost pure radium chloride and had determined radium's atomic weight as 225.
Marie and Pierre Curie and the Discovery of Polonium and Radium 1996
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One decigram only of salt was treated and consequently considerable difficulties were involved.
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Metric Weights. -- 10 milligrams 1 centigram, 10 centigrams 1 decigram, 10 decigrams 1 gram, 10 grams 1 dekagram, 10 dekagrams 1 hektogram, 10 hektograms 1 kilogram.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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One decigram only of salt was treated and consequently considerable difficulties were involved.
Radium And The New Concepts In Chemistry: Nobel Lecture 1911
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