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Weight/Mass | Convert from cental to petagram |
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Common Weight Conversions Metric Weight Conversions Unit Definition (cental) The cental is an alternate name in Britain for the U.S. hundredweight, which is equal to exactly 100 pounds (the British hundredweight is 112 pounds). Introduced by British merchants around 1850, the name was apparently coined after the model of the quintal. The cental has sometimes been confused with the centner. Unit Definition (petagram) The petagram is a metric unit of mass equal to 10E15 grams or 1 gigatonne (one billion metric tons). This unit is used in atmospheric science and other scientific contexts where large masses are considered.
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