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Petagram

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-004239

A unit of mass equal to one quadrillion (10¹⁵) grams or one billion metric tons, with the symbol Pg. Due to its immense scale, it is not used for typical industrial measurements but is standard in atmospheric science and climatology for quantifying global inventories of substances. For example, the total mass of carbon in Earth's atmosphere is measured in hundreds of petagrams.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-004239
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectMetrology and inspection
TranslationsGerman: Petagramm; Spanish: petagramo; French: pétagramme
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-004239",
  "term": "Petagram",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A unit of mass equal to one quadrillion (10¹⁵) grams or one billion metric tons, with the symbol Pg. Due to its immense scale, it is not used for typical industrial measurements but is standard in atmospheric science and climatology for quantifying global inventories of substances. For example, the total mass of carbon in Earth's atmosphere is measured in hundreds of petagrams.",
  "subject": "Metrology and inspection",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Petagramm",
    "es": "petagramo",
    "fr": "pétagramme"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/petagram/"
}

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