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Weight does matter

balanza0.000000000000000000 000000000009 gramsis the weight ofelectron, elementary particle of negative charge.

0.00000000000000005 gramsweighs a single molecule ofpenicillin. 0.000000000000001 grams weighs a virus. 0.003 kilos is the average weight of a grape.

5.9 kilosthe young Mexican weighedLucia Zarate(1863-1889) at the age of 20.

10 kilogramsis how much it would weigh in theMontha 60-kilo man, because the force of gravity is less on our satellite.

30-50 kilos.So weighed theAustralopithecus afarensis, a hominid ancestor of ours that lived between 3 and 4 million years ago.

87 kilosweighs the ex-presidentGeorge W. Bush, less than other American presidents: Bill Clinton (100 kilos), Theodore Roosvelt (95 kilos), George Washington (89 kilos) and William Howard Taft, who at 140 kilos is the heaviest American president.

653 kgThe American Brower Minnoch – the most obese man in the world – weighed when in 1978 he was admitted to a hospital for pulmonary heart failure.

665 kgwas the joint weight of theAmerican twins Billy (337 kg) and Benny McCray (328 kg). The two died of cardiac arrest in 1979 and 2001, respectively.

4,200 kilosgave on the scale thepistachio marzipan sweetthat 225 chefs cooked for an event at the Hamadanya stadium, Aleppo, Syria, on July 1, 2003.

5,000 kilosconstitutes the average weight of aAfrican elephant. 10,000,000 kilos, that is,10,000 tons: theeiffel tower weight, in Paris. In reality it is not very heavy, if we compare it with a large ocean liner, which reaches 70,000 tons.

150,000,000 kilosweighs thepassenger ship Queen Mary 2.This one triples in size toTitanic, which reached 46,000 tons.

555,000,000 kilos of aluminumthey are produced every year in the world, enough to make 17,000 million cans of beer.

11,200,000,000,000 kilosis the amount ofocean massthat disappears every year under the earth’s crust. Only 0.32 percent reappear.

5,000,000,000,000,000 kilosweighs the part of themontaña alpina Mont Blancthatemerge above sea level.

16,000,000,000,000,000 kilosis the estimated weight of thebiggest icebergthat has been observed. It was 335 km long and 97 km wide.

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