To put this in perspective, it takes only 500 liters of water to produce a kilogram of potatoes.
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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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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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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.
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.
In Bangladesh, a 2-kilogram bag of rice ... now consumes about half of the daily income of a poor family.
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.
They envisioned employing a fleet of drones with a two kilogram payload capacity and a six mile flight-range.
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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.
This would mean, of course, that pretty much anybody could determine the weight of a kilogram at home.
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 European Union has a standard of 2 watts per kilogram averaged over 10 grams of tissue.
Fans are Poles like Joanna Kosicka, a European Union official born in 1974 who reads "Marzi" to her 8-year-old son and recounts her own tales of waking at 4 a.m. to stand in line for one kilogram of sugar.
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To pay for the processing and facilities, climbers pay a tax of 1, 000 Nepali rupees per kilogram.
The Chinese government allows a maximum 0.2 mg of cadmium in each kilogram of rice.
' The currently accepted answer is the mass of a cylinder of platinum and iridium called the International Prototype Kilogram.
Revised standards to be effective from April drastically lower the threshold for requiring a raft of safety measures at the planting stage to 100 becquerels per kilogram.
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The result is a material that has an energy density of about 0.005 watt-hours per kilogram.
For this reason battery performance is usually measured in watts (a unit of energy calculated by multiplying voltage x amperage) per liter or watts per kilogram.
The problem with that definition, of course, is that not just anybody can measure it -- since most of us don't have an International Prototype Kilogram laying around, especially since every time the thing is picked up a few atoms rub off of it making it a little bit lighter.
Professional body builders consume up to 1.5 grams of protein per kilogram of weight each day, but unless you are spending several hours in the gym on a regular basis, this is too much for the average person trying to gain muscle.
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.
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