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Obolus

A small silver coin of Athens, the sixth part of a drachma, about three cents in value.

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Weight 76% connected

The quality of being heavy; that property of bodies by which they tend toward the center of the earth; the effect of gravitative force, especially wh…

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G 70% connected

G is the name of the fifth tone of the natural or model scale; -- called also sol by the Italians and French. It was also originally used as the treb…

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The unit of weight in the metric system. It was intended to be exactly, and is very nearly, equivalent to the weight in a vacuum of one cubic centime…

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