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I don't think it's that ambiguous. "Megaton" isn't really used anywhere except for explosive yields, where it always means TNT. As far as the 'native unit' ast
by nategri 9y ago
I don't think it's that ambiguous.
"Megaton" isn't really used anywhere except for explosive yields, where it always means TNT. As far as the 'native unit' astrophysicists will tend to use ergs for events like supernovae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erg
- kstrauser 9y agoI thought it was ambiguous in the context of an article talking about converting mass to energy. Without running the numbers, I couldn't tell if that was a unit of the input mass or the output energy.