chiliogramme

plural chiliogrammes

1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of kilogram.

   It appears also from Coulomb’s experiments, that a man going up stairs for a day raises 205 chiliogrammes (a chiliogramme is equal to three ounces five drams avoirdupois) to the height of a chiliometre (a chiliometre is equal to 39571 English inches);

   1829, Alexander Jamieson, A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous Knowledge, volume 2

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   According to the new system, a litre of air weighs one gramme, 232 milligrammes; and the chiliolitre or cubic metre, weighs 1 chiliogramme, 231 grammes, 903 milligrammes. […] To form a cubic metre of water, weighing 1000 chiliogrammes, will require therefore 850 chiliogrammes of oxygen gas, and 150 chiliogrammes of hydrogen gas.

   1801, Mathurin Jacques Brisson, The Physical Principles of Chemistry

   For a chiliogramme (2 lb. averd.) of wood, about 10 chiliogrammes of air are required; for a chiliogramme of coal, 20 chiliogrammes of air, &c. which, supposing that the oxygen and azote that enter into the composition of atmospheric air, are in the proportion of 22 to 78, shews that wood requires 2.20 of its weight of oxygen, Argand’s lamps offer an application of these principles, which is as curious as it is useful.

   1810, The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture