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Gerah (Biblical Hebrew)

The gerah was the smallest unit of weight in ancient Biblical Hebrew measurement systems. It is traditionally considered 1/20 of a shekel.

Since a shekel weighed about 11 grams, a gerah would weigh roughly 0.55 grams. The gerah was used to measure small amounts of precious metals like silver and gold, important in commerce and religious rituals.

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  1 gerah = 1/20 shekel ≈ 0.55 grams

  
  
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  Smallest Biblical Hebrew weight unit

  
  
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  Used for precise measurement of metals and offerings

  
  

Teragram [Tg]

The teragram is a metric unit of mass used to measure very large quantities.

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  1 teragram = 10¹² grams

  
  
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  1 teragram = 1,000,000,000 kilograms (1 billion kilograms)

  
  
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  Symbol: Tg

  
  

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  Used in fields like environmental science, geology, and meteorology

  
  
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  Useful for measuring large-scale masses such as forest biomass, pollutant emissions, or glacier mass

  
  
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  Part of the SI system, where "tera-" means $10^{12}$

  
  

The teragram helps scientists and researchers express large masses in a manageable unit.