SortStack #3150 — 2035-01-23

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single grain of long-grain rice 25 mg

   Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and farmers cultivate over 100,000 distinct varieties of it.

2. A single office staple 33 mg

   Heavier than a grain of rice — staples are solid steel wire, and a standard strip glues 210 of them together.

3. A single kernel of corn 300 mg

   Each kernel is botanically a complete fruit, and a typical ear carries an even number of rows — most often sixteen.

4. An iPhone 15 Pro 187 g

   Its titanium frame is the same alloy grade used in spacecraft and joint implants, trimming heft from earlier steel models.

5. A liter of water 1 kg

   The kilogram was originally defined in the 1790s as the mass of exactly this much water — the tie was only fully broken in 2019.

6. The Eiffel Tower 10.1K t

   The iron grows in summer: heat expands the sun-facing side, leaning the top away from the sun and adding around 15 cm of height.

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