{"id":37744,"date":"2022-11-19T10:44:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T16:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37744"},"modified":"2022-11-19T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T16:44:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-839","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/19\/word-of-the-day-839\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ronnagram<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;If we think about mass, instead of distance, the Earth weighs approximately six ronnagrams,&#8221; which is a six followed by 27 zeroes, Brown said.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-11-earth-ronnagrams-metric-prefixes-voted.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in<\/a>,&#8221; Daniel Lawler, <\/em><strong>Phys.Org<\/strong><em>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Quetta<\/em> is another 3 zeroes, and <em>ronto <\/em>and<em> quecto<\/em> down at the other end of the spectrum, describing painfully small measurements. <strong><em>WaPo&#8217;s<\/em><\/strong> article, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/11\/19\/ronnagram-si-prefix-quetta-measurements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Earth now weighs 6 ronnagrams. What does that mean?<\/em><\/a>&#8221; appears to be terminally confused about the difference between weight and mass:<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">The Earth can now be said to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/LqFbuRbOUtA\">weigh<\/a>\u00a0about six ronnagrams, instead of 6,000 yottagrams. Jupiter can be described as having a mass of about 1.9 quettagrams, instead of just 1.9 million yottagrams.<b>\u00a0<\/b>And an <em>electron\u2019s<\/em> weight is one rontogram, or 0.001 yoctograms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\"><em>Mass<\/em>, not <em>weigh<\/em>, please. Confusion runneth over. It was probably an <em>ankylosaurus<\/em>. He was in the club, after all.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnagram: &#8220;If we think about mass, instead of distance, the Earth weighs approximately six ronnagrams,&#8221; which is a six followed by 27 zeroes, Brown said. [&#8220;Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in,&#8221; Daniel Lawler, Phys.Org] Quetta is another 3 zeroes, and ronto and quecto down at the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/19\/word-of-the-day-839\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37745,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37744\/revisions\/37745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}