Convert Catties to Gigatons
Convert Catties (catty) to Gigatons (Gt) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
Gt = catty × 6.040000000e-13
About Catties
The catty (also jin 斤 in Chinese) is a traditional unit of mass used across East and Southeast Asia, equal to 600 grams in its modern metric form. It was historically the standard unit of trade for goods at markets throughout China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia for over a thousand years. Today the catty remains widely used in Chinese, Vietnamese, Malaysian, and Singaporean wet markets and grocery stores for weighing vegetables, meat, and fish. In Hong Kong, the catty (斤) is precisely 604.79 grams; in mainland China it is exactly 500 grams (half a kilogram).
About Gigatons
A gigaton (Gt) equals one billion metric tonnes (10¹² kg). It is the standard unit for planetary-scale mass measurements and global environmental budgets. Annual human CO₂ emissions are approximately 37 Gt CO₂; Earth's atmosphere contains roughly 5,480 Gt of air; Antarctic ice sheet mass is around 26,500,000 Gt of ice. Climate scientists report ice sheet mass balance changes in gigatons per year - the Greenland ice sheet loses approximately 280 Gt of ice annually due to climate change.
Quick Reference Table
| Catties (catty) | Gigatons (Gt) |
|---|---|
| 1 catty | 6.04 × 10-13 Gt |
| 2 catty | 1.208 × 10-12 Gt |
| 5 catty | 3.02 × 10-12 Gt |
| 10 catty | 6.04 × 10-12 Gt |
| 25 catty | 1.51 × 10-11 Gt |
| 50 catty | 3.02 × 10-11 Gt |
| 100 catty | 6.04 × 10-11 Gt |