A #kantar is the official #Egyptian weight unit for measuring #cotton. It corresponds to the US hundredweight, and is roughly equal to 99.05 #pounds, or 45.02 #kilograms. It is equal to either 157 kilograms of seed cotton or 50 kilograms of lint cotton.

@LRRRonEarth

I don't care how many #kilograms you weigh, you imperial.

I'll believe you can open a manhole when I see it.

''Let me now refer to the #Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant. This is the nuclear site in #Iran where the #consequences of an #attack could be most serious. It is an operating nuclear power plant and as such it hosts thousands of #kilograms of nuclear material.''

Why do so many documentaries use "football fields" or "soccer pitches" as units of area? I'm sorry, but when you say that something is the size of "50 football fields", it means absolutely nothing to me. Like if you said something weighs 150 tapirs or is 20 anacondas long.

#SI #squaremeters #kilograms

http://interestingengineering.com/the-worlds-first-steam-hammer-weighed-2500-kilograms/

The #World’s First #Steam #Hammer Weighed 2,500 #Kilograms