The set consists largely of a huge array of moving planks, which, collectively, weigh forty-five tons.
There is also the challenge of destroying the withdrawn notes which, collectively, weigh about 150,000 tonnes in a way that is both environmentally friendly and secure.
But, in order to explain how a set weighs ten ounces, they would have to again paraphrase and analyze the latter as something like "the set's members collectively weigh ten ounces".
Today, the Census of Marine Life, a network of researchers from 80 countries formed a decade ago to document the oceans' diversity, announced that marine microbes account for up to 90% of all ocean biomass and collectively weigh the equivalent of 240 billion African elephants.
And, for the drones, there were spare parts, maintenance gear, and, crucially, high-powered batteries: metallic bricks that collectively weighed eighty pounds, and often were trouble at airports.
In one recent survey, an international team reported more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic are floating in the world's oceans, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes.
More than five trillion pieces of plastic, collectively weighing nearly 269,000 tonnes, are floating in the world's oceans, causing damage throughout the food chain, new research has found.
The gold, construed as a set of gold atoms, can be said to weigh ten ounces in virtue of its members collectively weighing ten ounces.
Most astronomers think the universe started forming its recognizable structure around clumps of dark matter, the mysterious substance that collectively weighs six times more than all the visible matter and so far has eluded all attempts to detect it directly (ScienceNOW, 13 September).
European justice ministers are also collectively weighing whether to push for a decrypt law at the pan-EU level — apparently with agreement between them that e2e encryption presents a challenge for counterterrorism and policing, though no accord on what, if any, specific measures to take as yet.
An important question to address is how factors from both these different decision-making contexts are collectively weighed to justify health policy decisions.
