{"id":249,"date":"2022-11-03T18:37:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/?p=249"},"modified":"2022-11-03T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:37:27","slug":"practical-units-used-for-measuring-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/practical-units-used-for-measuring-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Practical units used for measuring mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"simpletoc-title\">Table of Contents<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"simpletoc-list\">\n<li><a href=\"#practical-units-used-for-measuring-large-masses\">Practical units used for measuring large masses:<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#practical-unit-used-for-measuring-very-small-masses\">Practical unit used for measuring very small masses:<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"practical-units-used-for-measuring-large-masses\">Practical units used for measuring large masses:<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>1 tonne or I metric ton = 1000 kg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 quintal = 100 kg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 slug = 14.57 kg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 pound = 1 lb = 0.4536 kg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 Chandra Shekher limit = 1 CSL = 1.4 times the mass of the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CSL is the largest practical unit of mass.<\/p>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"practical-unit-used-for-measuring-very-small-masses\">Practical unit used for measuring very small masses:<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>Atomic mass unit. It is defined as <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12\" height=\"25\" src=\"\">&nbsp;th of the mass of one <sup>12<\/sup><sub>6<\/sub>C atom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1 atomic mass unit = 1 amu = 1 u = 1.66 \u00d7 10<sup>-27<\/sup>kg <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The mass of a proton or a neutron is of the order of one amu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Practical units used for measuring large masses: 1 tonne or I metric ton = 1000 kg 1 quintal = 100 kg 1 slug = 14.57 kg 1 pound = 1 lb = 0.4536 kg 1 Chandra Shekher limit = 1 CSL = 1.4 times the mass of the sun. CSL is the largest practical unit &#8230; <a title=\"Practical units used for measuring mass\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/practical-units-used-for-measuring-mass\/\" aria-label=\"More on Practical units used for measuring mass\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/successrouter.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}