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I live in metric land (Sweden), and I have never seen "gr." for grams and honestly I would probably take a while to understand what it meant.
by boxed 2y ago
I live in metric land (Sweden), and I have never seen "gr." for grams and honestly I would probably take a while to understand what it meant.
- ulbu 2y agoyea, reads like "grains"
- kkfx 2y agoPeople do not know much about old cartridge powder measures though :D
- antonkochubey 2y agoAir rifle bullets are typically specified in grains, for example
- ndsipa_pomu 2y ago"Grains" are still used for measuring out powder/chemicals (also arrows). If I saw "gr", I'd interpret that as grains rather than grammes as "g" is definitely grammes, so the extra "r" must signify something.
- jeroenhd 2y agoI've seen gr for grams. Not as common as just g, but it does get used every now and then.
- proofrock 2y agoHere in Italy is more common than any other form, I'd say
- ivanhoe 2y agoIn ex-Yugoslavia countries using gr (usually without a dot) for grams used to be a fairly common thing. Last few decades as EU standardization takes place it's a lot rarer to see. Also in Croatia in everyday life people will far more often use decagrams (10g), shorten colloquially as 'deka', than grams - which leads to even more confusion because the SI abbreviation for decagrams is dag, not dg (which is decigram, 0.1g), and it's often mixed - even some primary school books had these typos.