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   From: russotto@grace.speakeasy.net   
      
   In article ,   
   Jeff Strickland  wrote:   
   >   
   >"Matthew Russotto"  wrote in message   
   >news:goTjp.360$uy2.2@newsfe05.iad...   
   >> In article ,   
   >> Jeff Strickland  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>I don't know that it was a Democrat or not, but a kiloton is a   
   >>>thousand-ton,   
   >>>so 18 kilotons is 18 thousand tons. I'm not sure this is a metric   
   >>>measurement...   
   >>   
   >> Nowadays the kiloton is defined such that a gram of TNT is one   
   >> kilocalorie.  I suspect that back in 1945 it was more likely to have   
   >> been related to an American short ton rather than a metric ton,   
   >> though.   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   >Kilo is the number of the measurment units, it means one thousand. Ton is   
   >the measurement unit, and is a non-metric measurment unit. A kiloton is   
   >nothing more than one thousand tons. One thousand non-metric units of   
   >measure.   
      
   Different kiloton, though they are related.  This is a kiloton of TNT   
   equivalent explosive yield, not a kiloton of weight.  A kiloton TNT is   
   1000 tons TNT, a ton TNT is 1000 kg TNT (this is the part I suspect was   
   different in 1945; I suspect a ton TNT back then was 2000 pounds TNT),   
   and a kg TNT is of course 1000 grams TNT.  A gram of TNT-equivalent   
   explosive yield is defined as 1 kilocalorie (actual TNT varies), and a   
   kilocalorie is 4184 joules -- this last is a perfectly good SI unit,   
   so you can unwind and find out that 1 kiloton of TNT equivalent is   
   4184 terajoules in the metric system.   
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