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Some fishermen said they collected up to 50 kilos of waste a week.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

Several processing stages later, 99.99 percent pure copper plates, each weighing more than a hundred kilos, are shipped all over the world.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

On the trading floor of precious-metals group Heraeus in Hanau, Germany, Dominik Sperzel is fielding calls from investors hunting for silver bars—ranging from the smallest, one troy ounce, to the largest, 15 kilos.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 1, 2026

"You feel that you have 5,000 kilos on your chest. We don't have night. We don't have day. We have nothing," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 4, 2025

But Anatole has lost weight this winter and I’ve lost even more, eight kilos, so fast I’m a little scared.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver