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Orders of magnitude (mass)

Orders of magnitude (mass)

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

External link

Conversion Calculator for Units of MASS (& Weight) (http://www.ex.ac.uk/cimt/dictunit/ccmass.htm)

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