The word "kilogram" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun, or as a unit of measurement. For example, "The package contained 500 kilograms of sugar."
The Catalans shop here for woodland mushrooms("bolets" in Catalan, and "Ssetas" in Spanish); find more than 30 varieties at stalls 869 and 870, where a mixed kilogram costs around Pta1,100pts.
Beef production, by contrast, produces 16 kilograms of the gas per kilogram of meat.An increasingly affluent world is demanding more animal protein.
Their goal is to privatise the kilogram and dethrone the rule of Sèvres.In this section A subtle syllogism Clean living in Iceland Build a better kilogram . . .
Counting the number of atoms in a kilogram accurately enough is difficult.
He has a different idea for counting the atoms in a kilogram of material he wants to turn the process into a measurement of electrical current.Since the 1960s, it has been possible to make extremely precise measurements of currents and voltages by exploiting two fundamental phenomena of quantum theory the Josephson and quantum Hall effects.
But Dr Gläser hopes to obtain numbers at least as good as the silicon-sphere aficionados within a few years, and to go on to replace the prototype kilogram within a decade.A third attempt to dethrone the French artefact might succeed sooner.
The result is a feedstock with up to 60% more heat output per kilogram, far lower mercury, sulphur and ash content, and the potential for far cleaner burning.Other refining efforts are also being commercialised.
But Iceland also has a high-minded wish to cut carbon-dioxide emissions (which contribute to global warming) and so fulfil its obligations under the Rio convention.In this section A subtle syllogism Clean living in Iceland Build a better kilogram . . .
The company is also experimenting with a new way of storing the hydrogen that will fuel its cells a fabric made of fibres of activated carbon that can (when cooled with liquid nitrogen) soak up the same amount of energy per kilogram as petrol.
D1-BP has promised to pay 6.50 rupees (14 cents) for every kilogram of the black seeds found inside the shrub's fruit.
As a result, what science understands by a kilogram has varied, but has done so in a way that is, by definition, unmeasurable.A clean sweep The cleaning that attempts to keep the kilogram constant is done by a member of staff at the bureau, using a combination of steam and a chamois-leather cloth soaked in ethanol and ether.
