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How many: grams, decagrams, milligrams are there in a kilogram?

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A kilogram or a kilogramme (British spelling) is a standard weight unit in the metric [SI] system. It is abbreviated to ‘kg’.

It is easy to work out how many grammes, decagrammes or milligrammes there are in a kilogramme if you are familiar with the, so called, metric prefixes. A metric prefix is added to the name of a root word to modify its value. In other words, metric prefixes change the meaning of a given base unit to express its multitude or fraction. Hence:

- Kilo- means 1000x (multiplication by one thousand). Therefore, a kilo- gram = 1000 grams.

- Deca- means 10x (multiplication by ten). Therefore, a deca- gram = 10 grams.

- Milli- means 1/1000 (division by one thousand). Therefore, a milli- gram = 0.001 gram.

From there, it’s easy to calculate that 1kg equals:

1 KILOGRAM
1000 g
100 dag
1 000 000 mg


Did you know?

1. The kilogram is the only base unit in metric [SI] system which has a prefix (‘kilo-’).

2. A kilogram has been established as the weight of a cubic decimeter of water at the temperature of the melting point of ice.

3. The word kilogram / kilogramme stems from the combination of the Greek word khilioi (meaning “thousand”) and the French word gramme, utimately derived from the Latin gramma (meaning “small weight”).

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Top Discussions

~ hennas 2023-01-19 10:34:23

i though highland in scotland may have made the list tbh

~ pcp 2021-07-23 05:33:13

Technically Scotland doesn't count because they abolished the use of counties, hence why Inverness shire is not on the list.

~ dcd 2021-07-04 17:15:54

What happened to Invernessshire? at 10,907 km2 it is the biggest. Argyllshire would be up there too. 8,055 km2. This seems...