SortStack #105 — 2026-09-22
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- A single grain of table salt 60 µg
Salt crystals are near-perfect cubes because sodium and chloride ions lock into a rigid lattice — about a million grains fit in one cup.
- An unfed female mosquito 2.5 mg
After a full blood meal a mosquito can double or even triple her weight — and still fly away with the loot.
- A full-size kitchen refrigerator 135 kg
Refrigeration changed cuisine more than almost any invention; Einstein even co-patented a fridge with no moving parts in 1930.
- The Statue of Liberty 204 t
Her copper skin is only about as thick as two pennies; the green color is a patina that took roughly 30 years to develop.
- A Boeing 777-300ER airliner at maximum takeoff weight 351.5 t
Each of its GE90 engines is so wide that a Boeing 737 fuselage could very nearly fit inside the cowling.
- The steel arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge 39K t
The arch rises and falls up to 18 cm with temperature swings; locals affectionately call the bridge 'the Coathanger'.