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The stone remains widely used in the United Kingdom and Ireland for human body weight: in those countries people may commonly be said to weigh, e.g., "11 stone 4" (11 stones and 4 pounds), rather than "72 kilograms" as in most of the other countries, or "158 pounds", the conventional way of expressing the same weight in the US and in Canada. [38]
In Brazil, it is common to compare relatively small areas to the state of Sergipe (21,910.4 km 2 or 8,459.7 sq mi), the smallest in the country. Smaller areas are sometimes compared to the cities of São Paulo (1,521.11 km 2 or 587.30 sq mi) or Rio de Janeiro (1,221 km 2 or 471 sq mi).
Today only the stone continues in customary use for measuring personal body weight. The present stone is 14 pounds (~6.35 kg), but an earlier unit appears to have been 16 pounds (~7.25 kg). The other units were multiples of 2, 8, and 160 times the stone, or 28, 112, and 2240 pounds (~12.7 kg, 50.8 kg, 1016 kg), respectively.
Mass: kilograms – most typically, for newborns from about 3–4 kg (7–9 lb) for a human adult their weight range is about 50–100 kg (100–200 lb) Force : newtons (e.g. the weight of a human on Earth, on the order of several hundred newtons, or about 100–200 lb f )
Barrel: as in many regions, varied by content: 40 [Irish] gallons for "grain" and quicklime; 12 stone for malt; 14 stone for oats; 16 stone for barley; 20 stone for beans, peas, wheat, and potatoes. [62] Stone: in Dublin was 15 pounds for rough tallow and 16 pounds for wool (instead of the standard 14 pounds). [63]
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The long or imperial hundredweight of 8 stone or 112 pounds (50.80 kg) is defined in the British imperial system. [ 2 ] Under both conventions, there are 20 hundredweight in a ton , producing a " short ton " of 2,000 pounds (907.2 kg) and a " long ton " of 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg).
These figures should be compared with the temperature and density of Earth's atmosphere plotted at NRLMSISE-00, which shows the air density dropping from 1200 g/m 3 at sea level to 0.125 g/m 3 at 70 km, a factor of 9600, indicating an average scale height of 70 / ln(9600) = 7.64 km, consistent with the indicated average air temperature over ...