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NIST Museum & Archives

Sugar Weights

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Two gold-plated brass weights sitting on top of a wood box, in front of tongs used to handle them

These two gold-plated brass weights adjusted to 26 g and 13 g were made for use in custom houses to weigh samples of sugar in preparing solutions for use in polariscopes.

Created March 30, 2017, Updated January 11, 2018