pood
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thumb|right| A 16kg kettlebell - one pood rounded to the nearest whole metric unit The pood (, plural: or ) is an obsolete Russian unit of mass equal to 40 funt (, Russian pound). Since 1899, it has been set to approximately 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds). The pood was first mentioned in the 12th century.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- unit of mass
- Part of
- Russian system of units
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- conversion to SI unit
- 16.3804964
- conversion to standard unit
- 40
- measured physical quantity
- mass
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
- wd:Q923539 p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?source; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. ?item p:P2370/psn:P2370 [wikibase:quantityAmount ?target; wikibase:quantityUnit ?base]. BIND(?source / ?target as ?value)
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thumb|right| A 16kg kettlebell - one pood rounded to the nearest whole metric unit The pood (, plural: or ) is an obsolete Russian unit of mass equal to 40 funt (, Russian pound). Since 1899, it has been set to approximately 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds). The pood was first mentioned in the 12th century.
== Use in the past and present == thumb|1959 postage stamp giving weight of grain in poods instead of tonnes
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