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Aum (unit)

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Not to be confused with Ohm (unit).

Aum was a UK unit for hock; it was between 30 and 32 gallons.

It is analogous to the Dutch measure of the same name.

Conversion

1 aum = 30-32 gallons

1 aum = 0.136-0.145 m

References

  1. ^ Cardarelli, François (2003). Encyclopaedia of Scientific Units, Weights and Measures. London: Springer. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4471-1122-1.
  2. Gyllenbok, Jan (2018-04-12). Encyclopaedia of Historical Metrology, Weights, and Measures. Birkhäuser. ISBN 9783319667126.
  3. Jerrard, H. G. (2013-03-09). A Dictionary of Scientific Units: Including dimensionless numbers and scales. Springer Science & Business Media. ISBN 9789401705714.


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