This would mean, of course, that pretty much anybody could determine the weight of a kilogram at home.
He built it by purchasing partly dried whey from cheesemakers for 77 cents a kilogram.
Abiomed's AbioCor is silent, portable and weighs only a kilogram, only twice as heavy as a healthy heart.
To put this in perspective, it takes only 500 liters of water to produce a kilogram of potatoes.
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One twist: pork bellies, which now cost 48 cents a kilogram more than lean hogs that sell at 141 cents a kilo.
They have tested it in a small area towards the stern of Cutty Sark and successfully removed half a kilogram of salt.
In April 2002 a dead minke whale was washed up on the coast of Normandy, France, with nearly a kilogram of plastic bags in her stomach that she had mistaken for food.
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Because of this, the actual International Prototype Kilogram (yes, there does only seem to be one in existence) is stored in a vault in Sevres, France, limiting the lay person's ability to determine the actual weight of a kilogram.
Last year, Almonte testified that a Santa Muerte statue prayer card, found with a kilogram of methamphetamine in a couple's car in New Mexico, were "tools of the trade" for drug traffickers to protect them from law enforcement.
For example, in an intriguing research project with my (rather exceptional) PhD student Amandine Ody, we asked lots of people in the Champagne industry whether different Champagne houses paid different prices for a kilogram of their raw material: grapes.
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But when we looked at the actual data (which are opaque at first sight and pretty hard to get), the price differences appeared huge: some paid 6 euros for a kilogram, others 8, and yet other 10 or even 12.
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He noted that while a 160-kilogram person on Samoa Air will pay four times as much as a 40 kilogram person, the airline would ensure more space for the bigger passenger.
They envisioned employing a fleet of drones with a two kilogram payload capacity and a six mile flight-range.
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It can take more than 25, 000 liters of water to produce a single kilogram of cotton.
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When police from Scotland raided the house in a joint operation with Merseyside Police, they found a press, a mould with plates, scales and a 25 kilogram drum of bulking agent.
With so much torque pushing a 565-kilogram car, the engine doesn't need a transmission.
In Bangladesh, a 2-kilogram bag of rice ... now consumes about half of the daily income of a poor family.
The 75-page operations manual Fred L. Turner drafted in 1958 has grown into a 4-kilogram, 732-page tome.
Delpopolo had placed seventh at a 73-kilogram judo event last Monday.
The man, described as an amateur explorer who wants to remain anonymous, unearthed a 5.5 kilogram golden nugget 60 centimeters in the ground outside Ballarat, a city about an hour and a half drive west of Melbourne.
They recommend a minimum floor area per bird, in enclosed housing, of 0.026 square metres per kilogram - a maximum stocking density of 40kg per square metre.
But while computing costs, for example, have fallen by a factor of 10, 000 or more, the cost per kilogram of launching a payload into space has remained virtually immobile.
The bottom line is that the cylinders have now passed their useful shelf life as the ultimate reference for the kilogram and as a result, scientists around the world have been working on new ways to define the kilogram.
Not much, admittedly, when compared to the 128 watt-hours per kilogram of a lithium-ion battery, like that found in many electric cars.
The Toronto Star has reported that two reporters watched a video that appears to show the 300-pound (135-kilogram) mayor, sitting in a chair, inhaling from what appears to be a crack pipe.
This ensures that the new kilogram will be a truly universal and immutable standard, set in something much firmer than stone, or even platinum: the fundamental laws of nature.
The European Union has a standard of 2 watts per kilogram averaged over 10 grams of tissue.
To pay for the processing and facilities, climbers pay a tax of 1, 000 Nepali rupees per kilogram.
The 100-kilogram (220 pound) device was a Russian aerial bomb dropped during World War II, police said.
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