1. Weigh three eggs, and use an equivalent weight  of fat, sugar, and flour. 2. Equivalent weights  were not without problems of their own.3. You would multiply the mass times that value to get the equivalent weight  on earth. 4. In addition to its pilot, the spacecraft had to carry the equivalent weight  of two passengers. 5. :: Actually I believe that for equivalent weight  / size engineered wood is stronger, not weaker. 6. Historically, the equivalent weights  of the elements were often determined by studying their reactions with oxygen. 7. The casing weighed some, but Coleman managed to save an equivalent weight  in the locomotive itself. 8. :: That's because the balloon's weight is less than an equivalent weight  of air that it displaces. 9. A requirement for winning the Ansari X Prize is to carry the equivalent weight  of two passengers. 10. However, equivalent weights  continued to be used for many compounds for another hundred years, particularly in analytical chemistry.