quectogram

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English

Etymology

From quecto- +‎ gram.

Noun

quectogram (plural quectograms)

  1. (metrology) An SI unit of mass equal to 10−30 grams. Symbol: qg
    • 2022 November 18, Ian Sample, “Earth weighs in at six ronnagrams as new prefixes picked for big and small”, in The Guardian:
      The arrival of the new prefixes means the Earth can now be said to weigh six ronnagrams, and Jupiter about two quettagrams. An electron weighs about a rontogram, and a single bit of data stored on a mobile phone adds about 10 quectograms to its mass.