Gram

Gram
Unit sign	g
Measure	Mass
Base Unit	Kilogram
Multiple of Base	10-3
System	SI, CGS, other
Common usage	Commonly used in cooking and food labeling
Examples
One millilitre of water is 1 g Typical coins: a euro is 7.5 g and a US penny is 2.5 g
Conversion
SI	10 dg= 1 g = 0.1 dag = 0.001 kg
Imperial	1 g ≈ 0.0352 ounce ≈ 0.0022 pound
see also: Orders of magnitude (mass)
Next units
decigram	<	Gram	<	decagram

For other uses of the words gram or gramme, see gram (disambiguation).

The gram or gramme (Greek/Latin root grámma) symbol g, is a unit of mass. It is defined as one one-thousandth of the SI base unit kilogram, or 1×10⁻³ kg.

Contents 1 Examples 2 History 3 Uses 4 Conversion factors 5 See also

Examples

• plastic pen cap (Bic) is 1 gram
• Smartie 1 gram
• paper clip is 0.5 grams to 1.5 grams
• A4 paper is 5 grams
• 1 USD is 1 gram

History

It was the base unit of mass in the original French metric system and the later centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system of units.

Uses

The gram is today the most widely used unit of measurement for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and grocery shopping worldwide. For food products that are typically sold in quantities far less than 1 kg, the unit price is normally given per 100 g.

Most standards and legal requirements for nutrition labels on food products require relative contents to be stated per 100 g of the product, such that the resulting figure can also be read as a percentage.

Conversion factors

• 1 grain = 0.06479891 gram
• 1 ounce (avoirdupois) = 28.349523125 grams
• 1 ounce (troy) = 31.1034768 grams

See also

• Conversion of units
• Gold gram

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