troy grain

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What does troy grain mean?

A unit of mass, equal to 1/24 of a pennyweight or 1/480 of a troy ounce, fixed at 0.064 798 91 grams under the metric system.

Where does troy grain come from?

Morphologically, from Troyes, town in Northern France + grain, unit of mass.

How to pronounce troy grain

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