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Orders of magnitude (mass)

Orders of magnitude (mass)

Powers of 103
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orders of magnitude
10-33 kilograms
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10-33 kg[?], 10-32 kg[?], 10-31 kg
10-30 kilograms
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About the rest mass of an electron
10-30 kg, 10-29 kg, 10-28 kg
1 yactogram
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Mass of a hydrogen atom = 1.66 yg
1 yg, 10 yg, 100 yg
1 zeptogram
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21 water molecules = 1 zg
1 zg, 10 zg, 100 zg
1 attogram
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mass of a small virus = 10 ag
1 ag, 10 ag, 100 ag
1 femtogram
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1 fg, 10 fg, 100 fg
1 picogram
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1 pg, 10 pg, 100 pg
1 nanogram
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1 ng, 10 ng, 100 ng
1 microgram
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1 µg, 10 µg, 100 µg
1 milligram
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1 mg, 10 mg, 100 mg
1 gram
0.035 ounce
ounce = 28.4 g
pound = 454 g
1 g, 10 g, 100 g
1 kilogram
2.2 pounds
short ton = 910 kg
1 kg, 10 kg, 100 kg
tonne
(thousand kilograms)
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1 t, 10 t, 100 t
106 kilograms
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106 kg, 107 kg, 108 kg
109 kilograms
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109 kg, 1010 kg, 1011 kg
1012 kilograms
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1012 kg, 1013 kg, 1014 kg
1015 kilograms
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Mass of Deimos = 1.8 x 1015 kg
1015 kg, 1016 kg, 1017 kg
1018 kilograms
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1018 kg, 1019 kg, 1020 kg
1021 kilograms
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Mass of 1 Ceres is about 1021 kg
1021 kg, 1022 kg, 1023 kg
1024 kilograms
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Mass of Venus = 4.9 x 1024 kg
1024 kg, 1025 kg, 1026 kg
1027 kilograms
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Mass of Jupiter = 1.9 x 1027 kg
1027 kg, 1028 kg, 1029 kg
1030 kilograms
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Mass of the Sun = 2 x 1030 kg
1030 kg, 1031 kg, 1032 kg
1033 kilograms
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1033 kg[?], 1034 kg[?], 1035 kg[?]
1036 kilograms
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1036 kg, 1037 kg[?], 1038 kg[?]
1039 kilograms
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1039 kg, 1040 kg, 1041 kg

The pages linked in the right-hand column contain lists of masses that are of the same order of magnitude (power of ten). Rows in the table represent increasing powers of a thousand.

Orders of magnitude of other quantities: time, length, area, volume

See also SI, SI prefixes, SI base units, units, mass, orders of magnitude, conversion of units

External link

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