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pen cap, about 1 gram.]] For other uses of the words gram or gramme, see Gram (disambiguation) . The gram or '''gramme''' (Greek/Latin root ''grámma''); symbol '''g''', is a Unit of Mass . Originally defined as "the absolute weight of a volume of pure base unit, the Kilogram , or 1×10−3 kg, which itself is defined as being equal to the mass of a physical prototype preserved by the International Bureau Of Weights And Measures . EXAMPLES All masses are approximate:
OTHER ABBREVIATIONS The , gm, grm, gms, grms. HISTORY It was the base unit of mass in the original French Metric System and the later Centimetre-gram-second (CGS) System Of Units . The word originates from Late Latin ''gramma'' – a small weight. USES The gram is today the most widely used unit of measurement for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and grocery shopping worldwide. For food products that are typically sold in quantities far less than 1 kg, the unit price is normally given per 100 g. Most standards and legal requirements for nutrition labels on food products require relative contents to be stated per 100 g of the product, such that the resulting figure can also be read as a percentage. CONVERSION FACTORS
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