John VanSickle wrote:

> A Troy ounce is 480 grains.  There are 7000 grains in a pound.  This 
> makes a Troy ounce about 31.1 grams or so.

Right. So 31.1 grams of gold is... a pretty tiny volume, I would think.

>> I tried to get similar data for other substances, but Wolfram's "data 
>> curators" evidently haven't got that far yet. I did find a website 
>> though that claims that the London Metal Exchange has the following 
>> prices:
>>
>>   Sn $14.325 / Kg
>>   Ni $13.770 / Kg
>>   Cu $ 4.776 / Kg
>>   Pd $ 1.530 / Kg
>>   Zn $ 1.509 / Kg
>>   Al $ 1.384 / Kg
> 
> I'm rather surprised to see palladium going for $1.53 for a kilogram, 
> rather than $240 or so per ounce like it does on other sites, so I'd 
> have to say that Pd is really supposed to be Pb (AKA lead) above.

Owned.

Again.

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