SortStack #763 — 2028-07-11

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. 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.

2. A western honeybee worker 100 mg

   To make one jar of honey, a hive's bees collectively fly a distance equal to about three orbits of the Earth.

3. A FIFA regulation soccer ball 430 g

   World Cup balls are tested in wind tunnels; the 2010 'Jabulani' was so smooth that goalkeepers complained it swerved unpredictably.

4. A 16-inch MacBook Pro 2.2 kg

   Apple's obsession with grams runs deep: the original 1989 Macintosh Portable weighed more than three of these.

5. A front-loading washing machine 76 kg

   Much of the heft is a deliberate concrete counterweight — without it, the spin cycle would walk the machine across your floor.

6. A Steinway concert grand piano 480 kg

   Each Steinway Model D takes about a year to build and contains over 12,000 individual parts.

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