What are pennyweights?
Pennyweights are a unit of measurement commonly used in the jewelry industry to measure the weight of precious metals such as gold and silver.
A pennyweight is 1/20th of a troy ounce, which is 1.55517 grams. Jewelers still use it for small amounts of gold and silver.
To get grams from pennyweights multiply by 1.555 – 10 pennyweights is about 15.55g. The abbreviation dwt comes from d for denarius, the old penny.
What is a kilogram?
A kilogram is metric unit of weight subdivided into 1,000 grams. The base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) is a kilogram and not, as is quite often mistaken, the gram.
One liter of water weighs 1kg.