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Old 06-25-2008, 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Cannon Shell
petagram


petagram (plural petagrams)

A unit of mass equal to 1,000,000,000,000,000 grams. Symbol: Pg


41 doesnt sound like much
Leave it to the press. A petagram is about 2,204,622,621,800 lbs. A horse would probably explode with an injection of that size. Could they be talking about a picogram (.001 billionths) or a femtogram ( .000001 billionths of a gram)?

Oh BTW, a petagram doesn't need a plural, there's nothing that big.
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