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Posted by: ROBERTO jh
Posted by: That Atheist
Wait wait wait. A terraton is a measurement of weight. Nuclear yield is measured in tons, kilotons, megatons and gigatons, not terratons.
Terratons, petatons and all the other forms of measurement I've seen mentioned here are measurements of weight, not explosive force.
The scale is this
1,000 tons=1 kiloton
1,000,000 tons= 1 megaton
1,000 megatons=1 gigaton
1,000 gigaton=1 terraton
1,000 terratons= 1 petaton
1,000 petatons= 1 exaton
1,000 exatons= 1 zettaton
and 1,000 zettatons=1 yottaton.
The higher up tons usually involve cataclysmic cosmic disasters (supervova, planets colliding, Neutron Stars colliding with another planet-sized object, etc.) But they are all valid meassurments of yield.
I believe you may be mistaken. The ton scale for explosive force has only ever gone up to gigaton, then stopped.
I believe you may have this confused with joules, a measurement of energy, which go up to yottajoules and include every thing you listed in that order, just instead of saying "ton" it says "joule"
Joule
Kilojoule
Megajoule
Gigajoule
Terrajoule
Petajoule
Exajoule
Zettajoule
Yottajoule.
See any similarity's?