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International System of Units | 1 kg |
The kilogram (symbol: kg) is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI, from the French Le Système International d’Unités), which is the modern standard governing the metric system. The kilogram is defined as being equal to the...
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| x Pound | Avoirdupois | 0.45359 kg |
The pound or pound-mass (abbreviation: lb, lbm, or sometimes in the United States: #) is a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other systems of measurement. A number of different definitions have been used, the most common...
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| x Ounce | US customary units | 0.02835 kg |
The ounce (abbreviated: oz, the old Italian word onza, now spelled oncia; apothecary symbol: ℥) is a unit of mass with several definitions, the most commonly used of which are equal to approximately 28 grams. The ounce is used in a number of...
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| x Milligram | International System of Units | 0 kg |
A milligram is a metric mass unit that is 1/1000th of a gram, or 1/1000000th of a kilogram.
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| x Short ton | US customary units | 907.18474 kg |
The short ton is a unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds (907.18474 kg). In the United States it is often called simply ton without distinguishing it from the metric ton (tonne, 1,000 kilograms) or the long ton (2,240 pounds/1,016.0469088 kilograms);...
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International System of Units | 1,000 kg |
A tonne (unit symbol t) or metric ton (U.S.), also referred to as a metric tonne, is a measurement of mass equal to 1,000 kg or 2,204.62262 lb, or approximately the mass of one cubic metre of water at four degrees Celcius. It is not a unit in the...
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| x Long ton | Imperial unit system | 1,016.04691 kg |
Long ton (weight ton or imperial ton) is the name for the unit called the "ton" in the avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements, as used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries. It has been mostly replaced by the tonne,...
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International System of Units | 0.001 kg |
A Gram is a unit of measurement for mass (or weight). It is 1/1000th of a Kilogram.
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| x Stone | Imperial unit system | 6.35029 kg |
The stone is a unit of measure, which in practice is usually a mass of about 6.35 kilograms.
When it ceased to be legal for trade in United Kingdom in 1985, it was defined in British legislation as being a weight or mass [sic] equal to 14 ...
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| x Microgram | International System of Units | 0 kg |
A microgram is a Metric unit of weight that is 1/1000th of a milligram.
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| x Planck mass | Planck units | 0 kg |
In physics, the Planck mass (mP) is the unit of mass in the system of natural units known as Planck units. It is defined so that
where c is the speed of light in a vacuum, G is the gravitational constant, and ħ is the reduced Planck constant....
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Imperial unit system | 0.00006 kg |
A grain is a unit of measurement of mass that is based upon the mass of a single seed of a typical cereal. Historically, in Europe, the average masses of wheat and barley grain were used to define units of mass. Since 1958, the grain or troy grain ...
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| x Dram | Imperial unit system | 0.00177 kg |
The dram (archaic spelling drachm; apothecary symbol ℨ) was historically both a coin and a weight. Currently it is both a small mass in the Apothecaries' system of weights and a small unit of volume. This unit is called more correctly fluid dram or...
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| x Long quarter | Imperial unit system | 12.70059 kg | ||
| x Hundredweight | Imperial unit system | 50.80235 kg |
The hundredweight or centum weight (abbreviated cwt) is a unit of mass defined in terms of the pound avoirdupois (lb). The Imperial and U.S. customary definitions differ :
In both systems, there are twenty hundredweights to a ton: respectively, the...
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| x Cental | US customary units | 45.35924 kg |
In Imperial units, a hundredweight (“long”) is defined as 112 pounds avoirdupois, or 8 stone, or four quarters (50.80234544 kg). This is so close to 50 kg that the transition to metric equivalents has been easy.In U.S. customary units,
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| x Candareen | Chinese units of measurement | 0.00038 kg |
A candareen (Chinese: 分; pinyin: fēn; Cantonese Yale: fàn) is a traditional measurement of weight in East Asia. It is equal to 10 cash and is 1/10 of a mace. It is approximately 378 milligrams. A troy candareen is approximately 374 milligrams.
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| x Mace | Chinese units of measurement | 0.00378 kg |
A mace (Chinese: 錢; pinyin: qián; Cantonese Yale: chìhn; Hong Kong English usage also: tsin) is a traditional Chinese measurement of weight in East Asia that was also used as a currency denomination. It is equal to 10 candareens and is 1/10 of a...
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Chinese units of measurement | 0.0378 kg |
Tael can refer to any one of several weight measures of the Far East. Most commonly, it refers to the Chinese tael (simplified Chinese: 两; traditional Chinese: 兩; pinyin: liǎng), a part of the Chinese system of weights and currency . There were many...
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| x Catty | Chinese units of measurement | 0.60479 kg |
Catty is the English word for a traditional Chinese unit of mass called a jīn (Chinese characters: 斤) in Mandarin Chinese (or gan in Cantonese, kin or kun in Minnan , kin in Japanese and 'cân' in Vietnamese) used across East Asia. The English word...
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| x Picul | Chinese units of measurement | 60.47898 kg |
Picul is the English word for a traditional Chinese measurement of weight called dàn (擔) in Mandarin Chinese or tam (擔) in Cantonese language.
One picul is 100 catty. In Hong Kong, one picul is equivalent to 60.478982 kilogramme, and in ordinance 22...
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| x Cash | Chinese units of measurement | 0 kg |
Cash or li (simplified Chinese: 厘; traditional Chinese: 釐 or 厘; pinyin: lí) is a traditional Chinese unit of weight.
The terms "cash" or "le" were documented to have been used by British explorers in the 1830s when trading in Qing territories of...
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| x Troy ounce | Troy weight | 0.0311 kg | ||
| x Pennyweight | Troy weight | 0.00156 kg |
A pennyweight (abbreviated dwt) is a unit of mass that is equal to 24 grains, 1/240 of a troy pound, 1/20 of a troy ounce, approximately 0.055 ounces, and approximately 1.555 grams.
Historically, a British penny's weight was literally, as well as...
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| x Troy pound | Troy weight | 0.37324 kg | ||
| x Electron rest mass | Atomic units | 0 kg | ||
| x Short quarter | US customary units | 11.33981 kg | ||
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Astronomical Unit of Mass | 1,989,099,999,999,999,887,809,347,321,856 kg |
The solar mass (M⊙), 1.98892×10 kg, is a standard way to express mass in astronomy, used to describe the masses of other stars and galaxies. It is equal to the mass of the Sun, about two nonillion kilograms or about 332,950 times the mass of the...
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| x Jupiter mass | Astronomical Unit of Mass | 1,898,599,999,999,999,942,269,599,744 kg |
Jupiter mass (MJ or MJUP), is the unit of mass equal to the total mass of the planet Jupiter (1.8986×10 kg, 317.83 Earth mass; 1 Earth mass equals 0.00315 Jupiter masses). Jupiter mass is used to describe masses of the gas giants, such as the outer...
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Astronomical Unit of Mass | 59,735,999,999,999,998,658,493,808,640 kg |
Earth mass (M⊕) is the unit of mass equal to that of the Earth. 1 M⊕ = 5.9742 × 10 kg. Earth mass is often used to describe masses of rocky terrestrial planets.
The four terrestrial planets of the solar system, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, have...
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Astronomical Unit of Mass | 73,477,000,000,000,000,786,432 kg |
Planetary mass is a measure of the mass of a planet. Within the Solar System, planets are usually measured in the astronomical system of units, where the unit of mass is the solar mass, the mass of the Sun. In the study of extrasolar planets, the...
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| x Atomic mass unit | Non-SI units accepted for use with SI | 0 kg |
A small unit of mass used to express atomic and molecular masses.
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Stone (Chinese: 石) is the English transliteration of a historical Chinese unit of mass, either pronounced as shek (Cantonese: sek6) or dan (pinyin: dàn) depending on context.
Historically, during the Qin and Han dynasties, the stone (dàn）was used...
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| x Grave | 1 kg |
A grave is a metallic reference standard of one thousand grams that was used for a few years until it was replaced by the kilogram standard in 1799.
Our modern kilogram has its origins in the pre-French Revolution days of France. Louis XVI created a...
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