Talk:Gram

message: Who can visualize 1×10−3 kg? Is it a molecule, a pin tip, a pepple, a rock? It's a great one sentence visualization. I think this is "encyclopedic material" gone too far. This is a useful tidbit and it costs one sentence. What do other people think? Nastajus 07:54, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We should avoid making contemporary comparisons like this as the weight of a paper clip will change over time.  In my desk drawer alone I probably have a dozen different sizes and styles of paper clips.  Steel, brass, plastic they probably range from much less than .5 grams to far more than 5 grams.     — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.14.134.196 (talk) 04:28, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

text: The gram as a unit may have it's difficulties, but they're not as bad as those of the kilogram. In exponential notation the gram is a much better unit to work with. Like the density of water is 1 gram/cubic cm or that the mass of the earth is 10E27.8 grams (approximately)and of the sun is 10E33.3 grams (approx.). And it fits well into the cgs calculations for both small and large values.WFPM (talk) 19:42, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It is equal to the mass of a plastic pen cap (Bic). A paper clip is often referred to as the weight of a gram, but paper clips weigh from 0.5 gram to 1.5 grams. (unsigned anon contribution)
To what precision? Given that there are different kinds of pen caps (even Bic ones) what is the accuracy? It's reasonable to mention something that weighs about a gram, to give an idea of scale, but pen caps are not even made to the standard of accuracy that we are talking about.
You should also be aware that we have something called the "three revert rule". This means that if you add something to Wikipedia and it gets changed back three times, you have to wait a day before making more changes to the article. If you don't do this you can be blocked from editing Wikipedia. You are already over this limit, but on the assumption that you didn't know about it I'm going to let you off. However if you repeat the change you will be blocked. DJ Clayworth 15:53, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Amen. Gene Nygaard 16:06, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's a Pen Cap 

message: How many grams are there in 50 pounds? Like if Amy Rose is 50 pounds, how many grams/decagrams/hectograms/kilograms is she? --PJ Pete
:per information on this article, you can find:
 grams = pounds * \frac{ 1 }{ .0022046 } 
 kilograms = pounds * \frac{ 1 }{ 2.2046 } 
:--Splarka (rant) 07:33, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight/Gram Difference 

message: Dammit, my Japanese wife just asked me as she's cooking my dinner, since I'm so Wikipedia smart, "How many grams are there in a quarter teaspoon of salt?"  (I have a heart problem.)  And I couldn't find the answer anywhere. Since on the one hand modern cookbooks have no problem with the "1 tsp" without making it easy for the consumer to convert it to the nutrition label which is in grams, why, it shows up Wikipedia's Achilles heel! The answer is so imprecise, amateurish even, that it is not dealt with, it is not encyclopedic!
Well, I just did. Thank the lord for Google. I hung on an external link which deals with it. Sorry, you purists out there.  JohnClarknew 02:39, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cooking and nutritional application

message: Can anyone tell me the British spelling of gram?  Is it gram or gramme?62.25.106.209 11:00, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is most commonly gram; however, gramme is sometimes seen, especially in old texts. E.g., in Huxley's Brave New World (published in 1932), one character exclaims, "A gramme is better than a damn". --Ferox117 (talk) 11:09, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, I've always used gram, and hardly ever seen gramme (not sure anyone in the UK uses it now, it was used a bit in the 90s). In the lead section it states that "gram" is the US spelling and "gramme" the rest of the world. I don't think that's correct, but I'm not sure if anyone can verify it? --J. Atkins (talk - contribs) 08:36, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/gram?view=uk. "Brit. also gramme". That seems to mean that gram is more prevalent in the UK. I'm gonna change the lead section. --J. Atkins (talk - contribs) 08:38, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm British, and a PhD student at Oxford, I have never heard of the word gramme. This is most cirtanly NOT the British spelling. 86.21.229.21 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 22:36, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Sources indicate that "gramme" is an alternate spelling. Paul August ☎ 23:58, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

text: My observations suggest that the word "gramme" was used before Britain started her metrication program. Once the word came into everyday usage, the shorter spelling was adopted.  The Guardian style guide  implicitly advocates the use of "gram"  (it uses the word "kilogram" in its section on metric units).  The Daily Telegraph style guide  and the Times style guide  both explicity states that the word "gram" must be used rather than "gramme".Martinvl (talk) 09:08, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

text: The SI brochure is definitve except in resepct of spelling - the symbol "km/h" is the same regardless of language (see kilometres per hour, but the way in which the word is written is dependant on the language.  In the UK, the opinion of the Oxford Dictionary is held in high regard (but is only 99.99% definitve) and UK legislation explicitly permits either spelling. My own view is that "gramme" is a little old-fashioned, having been superceded by the "gram" in the 1970's when the Brits started using the metric system for real. Martinvl (talk) 18:08, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: British Spelling

message: This new ym symbol is confusing. What is its purpose and derevation
Patso  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.244.239.212 (talk) 18:48, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The backward y symbol 

message: Is "gm" here a typo?:
"The International System of Units abbreviation for the gram is gm, and follows the numeric value with a space, as in "640 g"" Emike7500 (talk) 05:46, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviation "g" or "gm"? 

message: There's no explanation here and no conversion chart. "Microgram" gets its own page, so I think "Milligram" should too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.16.62 (talk) 22:49, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does "Milligram" redirect here? 

message: Are these comparisons relevant?  I weighed 20 paper clips and found them to be a little under 10 grams.  Also, Smartie Candies are unknown in the United Kingdom.  Are they relevant?
*Smarties are unknown in the United Kingdom? Where do you live? The Outer Hebrides? Jonchapple (talk) 16:01, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Only Smartioes have the answer to that one. Perhaps that user should visit the page Smarties? The Yowser (talk) 16:56, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparisons 

message: Please discuss these changes at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Measurement#Changes to the ledes of many SI-related articles.  Martinvl (talk) 18:37, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revocation of 19 November 2011 

message: Newton's law of universal gravitation states that "Gravity force is inversely proportional to the square of the on-centre distance between two point masses".  Thus gram, a metric system unit of mass is defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of a metre, and at the temperature of melting ice"[2] (later 4 °C), a gram is now defined as one one-thousandth of the SI base unit, the kilogram, or 1×10-3 kg, which itself is defined as being equal to the mass of a physical prototype preserved by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures [Wikipedia].
But the arcane reasoning in the theory evinces that the absolute weight force of each gram of one kilogram doesn't remain same, if stacked them all (1000 gm) i.e. the square of the on-certre distance is espied differently for each gram in the gravity model. 
Similarly, 1 kg of a physical prototype preserved by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures is equal to the mass of one litter of water in the PAN BALANCE SCALE. At ground level, on-centre distances might be ignored or impalpable in imbroglio but gravitational forces doesn't remain same if aforementioned masses are increased to a greater number equally in both pans. Although masses may be the same but different in their mammoth volumes say cubic meter. Thus their incongruent square of the on-certre distances elicits two different gravitational accelerations of earth starkly and hence a pan balance scale lopsided due to unequal moments about its support i.e
The centre to centre distance between EARTH & increased WATER mass is GREATER THAN THE centre to centre distance between EARTH & increased PROTOTYPE MASS
So, is the UNIT of mass [from infinitesimal particle to planet] superstitious notion and dependent on gravitating mass? 
68.147.43.159 (talk) 05:16, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is definition of UNIT [gram, kilogram] of MASS absolute or iffy? 

message: This is not very encyclopedic text. This is filler material about an irrelevant, theoretical, highly unlikely mistake. It also states that mistaking grams and grains is a bigger mistake than mistaking grams and milligrams. This is factually incorrect! All of the text below should be cut from the article. 
:"While some authors use ad hoc abbreviations, this creates confusion. For example, the use of abbreviations such as "gm", "Gm", or "GM" for grams could potentially lead to serious errors in health-care settings where accidentally transposing "gm" to "mg" (milligrams) could result in a 1,000 times dosage error. ...
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:A bigger mistake is using the abbreviation "gr" for grams. The symbol "gr" stands for grains."
--67.182.125.161 (talk) 12:20, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples of mistaking grams for milligrams and grains 

message: :Category:SI derived units should be removed. The gram is not an SI derived unit, like say, the joule [kg·m2·s–2]; it is a submultiple of an SI unit (the kilogram). Likewise, a millimeter, milligram, kilometer, etc.--Solomonfromfinland (talk) 16:34, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derived 

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message: Is the gramme named after Zénobe Gramme?  If not, what is the derivation? Roberttherambler (talk) 22:19, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Already in Gram#Official SI symbol. NebY (talk) 13:25, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivation