How heavy is 50 kilograms?
It's about ten times as heavy as a Gallon of Paint
The weight of a Gallon of Paint is about 5 kilograms.
(excluding container; average weight)
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It's about ten times as heavy as a Cat
The weight of a Cat is about 5 kilograms.
(Felis catus) (Domestic; healthy weight)
The average domestic cat should weigh about
4.5 kg. Cats are known for their righting reflex, which allows them to land on their feet and survive falls from heights of
1 m up to about
21 m.
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It's about one-tenth as heavy as a Polar Bear
The weight of a Polar Bear is about 516 kilograms.
(Ursus maritimus) (adult, male)
An adult, male polar bear weighs between
352 and 680 kg. Polar bears are so heavily insulated by their
9.9 cm (3.9 in) layer of blubber that they are often difficult to detect using infrared photography sensors.
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It's about one-tenth as heavy as a Grizzly Bear
The weight of a Grizzly Bear is about 521 kilograms.
(a.k.a. brown bear, a.k.a. silver bear, Ursus arctos horribilis) (Adult, male, coastal area population average)
An adult, male grizzly bear from a coastal area (where food is plentiful) can weigh up to
521 kg. In spite of their tremendous size, grizzly bears can run at speeds of up to
55 kph (34 mph).
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It's about one-fifteenth as heavy as a Cow
The weight of a Cow is about 680 kilograms.
(for Holstein, a.k.a. Holstein Friesian, a.k.a. Friesian, Bos primigenius) (adult, heifer)
A mature Holstein cow (the well-known black-and-white, spotted breed of cow) typically weighs
680 kg. President William Howard Taft (1909 - 1913) kept a Holstein cow named Pauline Wayne on the White House grounds — a gift from a Wisconsin senator and the source of the First Family's milk.
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It's about seventeen times as heavy as a Brick
The weight of a Brick is about 2.90 kilograms.
A standard, traditional face brick weighs an average of
2.9 kg. The steeple of the Church of St. Martin in Landshut, Germany is said to be the tallest brick tower in the world at a height of
130.6 m (428.5 ft) and was constructed using an estimated 650,000 bricks.
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It's about twenty times as heavy as a Chihuahua
The weight of a Chihuahua is about 2.250 kilograms.
(a.k.a. Chihuahue(o) (FCI standard)
The
F&d&ration Cynologique Internationale (FCI) calls for Chihuahuas to weigh about
1.5 to 3 kg. Relative to their body sizes, Chihuahuas have the largest brain size of any dog breed.
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It's about one-thirty-fifth as heavy as a Car
The weight of a Car is about 1,652 kilograms.
(for 2009 Ford Taurus) (curb weight)
A 2009 Ford Taurus weighs
1,652 kg. The first mass-produced car, the Curved Dash Oldsmobile — introduced in 1901 — weighed just
386 kg.
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It's about forty times as heavy as a Human Brain
The weight of a Human Brain is about 1.350 kilograms.
(adult)
The average weight of an adult human brain is between
1.350 kilograms. In humans and primates, sight and vision utilize about 30 different parts of the brain which together account for about half of the brain's size.
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It's about one-fortieth as heavy as a Giraffe
The weight of a Giraffe is about 1,930 kilograms.
(Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata) (adult, male, maximum of range)
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It's about one-fortieth as heavy as a Rhinoceros
The weight of a Rhinoceros is about 2,100 kilograms.
(for Black rhinoceros, Diceros bicornis) (Adult, male)
An adult black rhinoceros weighs between
1,400 and 2,800 kg. Rhinoceros are extremely aggressive — nearly one of every two males will die as a result of fighting with other rhinoceros.
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It's about 50 times as heavy as a liter of Water
The weight of a liter of Water is about 1.000028 kilograms.
(fresh; 4° C / 39.2° F; maximum density)
Contrary to popular belief,
1 liter (0.0.264172052358148 gal) of water at 4° C / 39.2° F (its point of maximum density) weighs
1.000028 kg rather than 1 kg exactly. The total volume of water on the planet Earth is about
13,590,000,000,000,000,000 (13.59 quntillion) L (3,590,000,000,000,000,000 gallons).
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It's about one-fifty-fifth as heavy as The Tongue of a Blue Whale
The weight of The Tongue of a Blue Whale is about 2,700 kilograms.
(Balaenoptera musculus) (adult)
The tongue of a Blue Whale can weigh up to
2,700 kilograms. Despite their tremendous size, blue whales feed almost exclusively on tiny crustaceans called krill and cannot swallow anything much larger than a beach ball.
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It's about one-seventy-fifth as heavy as a Hippopotamus
The weight of a Hippopotamus is about 3,800 kilograms.
(Hippopotamus amphibius) (adult, male)
The average weight of an adult male hippopotamus ranges from
3,000 to 4,500 kg. Appearances to the contrary, adult hippos cannot swim or float in water; they actually move by leaping and walking across lake bottoms at about
8 kph (5 mph).
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It's about 80 times as heavy as a Basketball
The weight of a Basketball is about 0.623689508750 kilograms.
(NBA official ball standards, Size 7)
A regulation NBA basketball, manufactured by Spalding, is known as a Size 7 ball and weighs
0.623689508750 kilograms. These balls have 4,118 pebbles each with a diameter of
2.5 mm
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