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Scotts buys about 150 kilotons of urea each year, per his estimate, and urea prices have surged to $660 per short ton from an average of $422 per short ton over the past year.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 26, 2026

The bomb that the U.S. dropped on Hiroshima in 1945 produced an explosive equivalent to about 15,000 tons, or 15 kilotons.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

That explosion released energy equivalent to hundreds of kilotons of TNT, reminding scientists that even modestly sized asteroids can have local effects.

From Science Daily • Oct. 9, 2025

The blast was equivalent to 3.2 kilotons of the explosive TNT and was the largest non-nuclear artificial explosion in world history until the Minor Scale test in 1985.

From National Geographic • Jan. 17, 2024

The yield of the Hiroshima bomb was only thirteen kilotons, the equivalent of thirteen thousand tons of TNT.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan