Gravet-force

Force

1×10⁻³ kgf

The gravet-force is a historical gravitational unit of force defined as the force exerted by standard acceleration of gravity on a mass of one gravet. The gravet was an early metric unit equal to one gram, established during the French Revolution before being renamed the gram in 1795. Consequently, one gravet-force is identical to a gram-force, corresponding to approximately 9.80665 millinewtons. It served as an early microscopic unit of force prior to the formal standardization of the CGS and SI unit systems.