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Per-kilogram prices of some synthetic radioisotopes range to trillions of dollars. ... ( mg / kg ) Price [7] Year Source Notes USD/kg USD/L [c] 1: H: Hydrogen ...
It yielded a harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes, together weighing 522 kg (1,151 lb). [112] [113] The town of Buñol, Spain, annually celebrates La Tomatina, a festival centered on an enormous tomato fight. On 30 August 2007, as many as 40,000 Spaniards gathered to throw 115,000 kg (254,000 lb) of tomatoes at each other in the festival. [114]
Cherry tomatoes are believed to be the direct ancestor of modern cultivated tomatoes and is the only wild tomato found outside South America. [5] The tomato is thought to have been first domesticated in the Puebla-Veracruz area of Mexico and to have reached this area from South America in the form of a weedy cherry tomato.
The kilogram is the only base SI unit with an SI prefix (kilo) as part of its name. The word kilogramme or kilogram is derived from the French kilogramme, [15] which itself was a learned coinage, prefixing the Greek stem of χίλιοι khilioi "a thousand" to gramma, a Late Latin term for "a small weight", itself from Greek γράμμα. [16]
In early 1989, for example, the price of one kilogram/US$0.58; of coffee was by June it had dropped to US$0.32. Mengistu told the 1989 WPE party congress that at US$0.32 per kilogram, foreign-exchange earnings from coffee would have dropped by 240 million Birr , and government revenue would have been reduced by 140 million Birr by the end of 1989.
Kilo is a decimal unit prefix in the metric system denoting multiplication by one thousand (10 3). It is used in the International System of Units , where it has the symbol k , in lowercase . The prefix kilo is derived from the Greek word χίλιοι ( chilioi ), meaning "thousand".
One source says that after 1973 a cavan of rough rice weighed 44 kg and a cavan of milled rice weighed 56 kg (the significance of the 1973 date is unclear). [ 6 ] Usage example: "At present, owing to the late scarcity of rice in Camarines and Leyte , the price of paddy at Iloilo has risen to 10 rials per province cavan, which is equal to one ...
Aquilaria malaccensis is a species of plant in the family Thymelaeaceae.It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, also Thailand.