A gigaton is a explosion that equalls to 1 BILLIONE tonz of tnt!
1 gigaton is equal to 1000000000000000 grams. that's 15 zeroes after the 1 so in scientific notation that would be 1 x 10^15
1 gigatonne (Gt) = 1,000,000,000,000 or 1012 kg
1,000,000,000 times 2000 pounds (Giga= billion, 1 ton = 2000 pounds)
A gigaton is 1000 megatons so it would be destroy an an area the size of Louisiana. But of course there is no such thing as a gigaton for bombs. IN FACT, there are already 1+ gigaton nuclear weapons. A 1 GT bomb would destroy an area the size of Texas, just with the expansive wave. A 90 GT bomb could change the planet trajectory.
"giga" is a prefix used to indicate "billion" or 109. 1 gigatonne = 109 tonnes, or 1,000,000,000 tonnes
The gigaton is a measure of blast force, equivalent to a billion tons of TNT. The largest weapon ever made, the 50 megaton (million tons of TNT) Czar Bomba, has less than one hundredth of this.
Marble is a type of rock and it exist in nature as a mountain or hill. There is no size limit for this answer. It can weight a few kg for construction marble cut to a few Gigaton of mountain rock.
1 Gt = 1 billion tons (1,000,000,000 tons) 1 Mt = 1 million tons (1,000,000 tons) 1 billion ---------- = 100 Mt in per Gt 1 million
Theoretically none, the yield can be made as high as one wants simply by adding more stages. However any yield in excess of about one gigaton is militarily useless as at about this yield most of the blast effects are wasted in simply blowing the top of the atmosphere above the burst off into space.
The fusion bomb is theoretically unlimited in yield, just keep adding stages. Edward Teller once proposed building a 10 gigaton fusion bomb. The largest ever exploded was just over 50 megatons, built by the USSR. How large do you want the blast to be?
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 1 words with the pattern -I-AT-N. That is, seven letter words with 2nd letter I and 4th letter A and 5th letter T and 7th letter N. In alphabetical order, they are: gigaton
According to SOWPODS (the combination of Scrabble dictionaries used around the world) there are 2 words with the pattern GI---ON. That is, seven letter words with 1st letter G and 2nd letter I and 6th letter O and 7th letter N. In alphabetical order, they are: gigaton gillion