"kg" is a correct and usable abbreviation for the metric unit of mass (and weight), kilogram, in written English.
You can use "kg" as a unit of measurement when discussing topics related to mass, such as food nutrition labels or certain scientific topics. Example: According to the nutrition label, one serving of this cereal contains 24g of fat and 6g of fiber, and is 85g per 100g or 0.85kg per kg.
It would have to dilute or export at least eight tons of low-enriched uranium, leaving it with only 300 kg.
Fortunately it was not cold and there was virtually no wind, so the discomfort wasn't that great – the Guardian's late great Harry Griffin always maintained that, once you're wet, you can't get any wetter, so you might as well strip off and have a swim, but this might have raised Scottish eyebrows and isn't especially practical (or comfortable) when you're lugging an 8 kg rucksack, anyway.
The brain is only 1.4 kg of grey matter.
Umande and its partners have built 57 biocentres in Nairobi, which have so far managed to collect at least 60,000 kg of poo, according to Omotto.
Today's soldiers lug around 100 lbs (45 kg), including communications equipment, limiting both speed and performance.
Older firms like Suntech had no choice but to pay $400 or more per kg in 2008.
Surrounded by beer and snacks, including an estimated 8m pounds (3.6m kg) of guacamole, they watch a football game whose winner is usually obvious by half-time.
And don't forget drugs: also 104 kg of heroin especially useful in Punjab, a centre of addiction.
Technical glitches over the past year in the flagship KG-D6 block have seen production fall, dashing hopes for bumper profits in the short term, says Somshankar Sinha of CLSA, a broker.
Paul Robertson of the University of Cambridge's engineering department, who has also converted hang-gliders to fly under electric power, calculates that the energy density of a lithium-ion battery is 0.15 kilowatt-hours per kilogram (kWh/kg).
The liver can be damaged by 150mg/kg of paracetamol taken within 24 hours and even by 75mg/kg.
