Gt\text{Gt}

gigatonne

Massexact by definition

The gigatonne is one billion tonnes, exactly 10¹² kilograms. It is the unit of the global carbon cycle: human fossil fuel combustion releases roughly 37 Gt of CO₂ a year, and the Greenland ice sheet has been losing a few hundred Gt a year.

1 Gt\text{Gt} 1,000,000,000,000 kg\text{kg}

One gigatonne in every mass unit

6.02214e+38unified atomic mass unit (dalton) (u)
1.00000e+27picogram (pg)
1.00000e+24nanogram (ng)
1.00000e+21microgram (μg)
1.00000e+18milligram (mg)
1.00000e+17centigram (cg)
1.54324e+16grain (gr)
5.00000e+15metric carat (ct)
1.00000e+15gram (g)
643,015,000,000,000pennyweight (dwt)
564,383,000,000,000dram (dr)
35,274,000,000,000ounce (oz)
32,150,700,000,000troy ounce (oz t)
2,679,230,000,000troy pound (lb t)
2,204,620,000,000pound (lb)
1,000,000,000,000kilogram (kg)
157,473,000,000stone (st)
68,521,800,000slug (slug)
22,046,200,000US hundredweight (cwt)
19,684,100,000UK long hundredweight (cwt (UK))
10,000,000,000quintal (q)
1,102,310,000US short ton (ton)
1,000,000,000metric tonne (t)
984,207,000UK long ton (long ton)
1,000,000kilotonne (kt)
1,000megatonne (Mt)
1gigatonne (Gt)this unit
1.67442e-13Earth mass (Mearth)
5.02914e-19solar mass (Msun)