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How heavy is 4,100,000 pennyweights?

It's about 300,000,000 times as heavy as a Grain of Rice
The weight of a Grain of Rice is about 0.014 pennyweights.
(conventional; US; long-, medium-, and short-gran varieties; uncooked)
With great differences in variety, the average among a sampling of common short-, medium- and long-grain rices finds that a single grain weighs about 0.014 pennyweights before cooking. A staple through most of human history, archaeological evidence indicates that the earliest rice cultivation was about 11,500 years ago.
It's about 1,500,000,000 times as heavy as a Grain of Sand
The weight of a Grain of Sand is about 0.0028 pennyweights.
(medium grain)
With tremendous variety in the size of grain and the component material, grains of sand weigh an average of 0.0028 pennyweights. In 2007, a team of seven in Myrtle Beach created the world's tallest sandcastle, which measured 15.10 m (49.55 ft) in height.
It's about 2,000,000,000 times as heavy as a Sesame Seed
The weight of a Sesame Seed is about 0.00234 pennyweights.
(Sesamum indicum)
A sesame seed weighs approximately 0.00234 pennyweights. The McDonald's Big Mac sandwich, which is well-known for its sesame seed top bun, accounts for the consumption of an estimated 1,290,000 pennyweights of sesame seeds each day.
It's about 10,000,000,000 times as heavy as a Grain of Sugar
The weight of a Grain of Sugar is about 0.000402 pennyweights.
(a.k.a. white sugar, a.k.a. white refined sugar, a.k.a. table sugar, a.k.a. sucrose, a.k.a. saccharose)
A grain of sugar weighs approximately 0.000402 pennyweights. Sugar consumption varies widely by country; the average citizen of the United States consumes about 39,400 pennyweights of sugar each year.
It's about 20,000,000,000 times as heavy as a Poppy Seed
The weight of a Poppy Seed is about 0.00019 pennyweights.
(Papaver somniferum)
Fifty percent oil by weight, a poppy seed weighs approximately 0.00019 pennyweights. The true pigment of a poppy seed is brown in color, while the characteristic bluish color is an optical illusion caused by a layer of calcium oxalate crystals refracting light rays.
It's about 100,000,000,000 times as heavy as a Grain of Salt
The weight of a Grain of Salt is about 0.00003760 pennyweights.
The mass of a grain of salt is approximately 0.00003760 pennyweights. Salt consumption varies widely by country; the people of the United States consume a combined total of about 36,700,000,000 pennyweights of salt each year.
It's about 0.000000000000000000000000003 times as heavy as The Sun
The weight of The Sun is about 1,300,000,000,000,000,159,832,101,204,525,056.000000000000000000000000000000000000 pennyweights.
The sun has a mass of 1,299,999,999,999,999,922,330,271,255,514,578,944.000000000000000000000000000000000000000 pennyweights which represents 99.9% of the solar system's total mass. 98.7% of the sun's mass consists of hydrogen and helium — respectively the lightest and second-lightest elements in the universe.
It's about 0.000000000000000000001 times as heavy as The Earth
The weight of The Earth is about 3,841,099,999,999,999,829,954,527,232.000000000000000000000000000000000 pennyweights.
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