troy grain

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troy grain

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

noun troy grains

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.
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@misc{troy_grain_2026,
  title = {troy grain},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/troy%20grain},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}