SortStack #2289 — 2032-09-14

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. An adult red fox 5.2 kg

   Red foxes may use Earth's magnetic field to aim their famous pouncing dives — they prefer striking toward the northeast.

3. ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer 27 t

   Its 17,468 vacuum tubes filled a huge room in 1945. The phone in your pocket is literally billions of times faster.

4. An adult blue whale 140 t

   The largest animal ever known has a heart the size of a small car, and its calves gain roughly 90 kg per day on milk alone.

5. 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.

6. The CN Tower in Toronto 117.9K t

   It held the title of world's tallest free-standing structure for 32 years, and its glass floor was the world's first.

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