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- From: jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr)
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- Subject: Re: Units (was Re: E=MC^2)
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- Date: 3 Sep 92 14:40:50 GMT
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- In article <10571@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> jac@ds8.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Carr) writes:
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- >So 9 x 10^{13} Joules from 1 gram would be the equivalent of the energy
- >released by 0.02 megatons (21,500 tons or 4.3 million pounds) of TNT.
- ^^^
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- correction, 43 million pounds, caught just after :-( I hit RETURN.
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