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Teraton vs Kiloton - What's the difference?

teraton | kiloton |

As nouns the difference between teraton and kiloton

is that teraton is a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many trillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy while kiloton is a measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many thousand tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.

teraton

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many trillion tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.

    • kiloton

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A measure of the strength of an explosion or a bomb based on how many thousand tons of TNT would be needed to produce the same energy.
  • * That's a 300-kiloton nuclear warhead.

    • Related terms

    * megaton * gigaton