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> >>   name        David
> >>   status      student
> >>   age         20s
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> >>   Question -  What can be found at a grocery store that weighs one newton?
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>         Reply to:  RE: NEWTON BBS Grocery Newtons Physics
>1 kg is about 10 N. One pound is about 5 N. So, anything that weighs about 
>a fifth of a pound (or about 100 g) has a one N weight. Perhaps a small 
>bar of chocolate weighs that much.
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>Dr. Ali Khounsary
>Advanced Photon Source
>Argonne National Laboratory
>Argonne, IL 60439
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