Gold is a measure of value as incorporated labor-time; it is the standard of price as certain weight of metal.
The state which in its mint price gave a certain name to a piece of gold of certain weight, and in the act of coinage only impressed its stamp on gold, seems now to turn paper into gold by the magic of its stamp.
All guns, according to their bore and length, will shoot a certain weight and a certain size of shot best.
The pressure of a certain quantity of powder, on which a certain weight of shot is placed, is so many pounds to the inch; and if you double that weight of shot, you nearly double the pressure.
From a given quantity of chemical energy represented, let us say, by a certain weight of coal, we can get a certain fixed amount of heat and no more.
This mechanical equivalent ought to tell us exactly how much power is obtainable from a certain weight of coal if we measure the quantity of heat given out when it is completely burnt.
In measuring work, it is customary to take as a unit the amount necessary to raise a certain weight at a specified place to a certain height against the force of gravity at that place.
He supplies the miners with iron tools when they are about to start to work in the mines, and apportions a certain weight of oil for their lamps, and trains them to dig to the best advantage, and sees that they work faithfully.
Quantities of heat are always measured in terms of the amount needed to raise a certain weight of water a certain number of degrees on the thermometric scale.
We begin this assay process by weighing, in a delicate balance, a certain weight of the metallic alloy; a gramme (= 15.
The product of coke from a certain weight of coal is greater in Wales than in Staffordshire, though the mode of manufacture is the same.
A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "certain weight" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
