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How much does a sheet of paper weigh?
4.99 g0.176 ozWhich one: A4, 80 g/m²
A sheet of paper weighs about 4.99 g (0.176 oz).
Household items, coins and gadgets, using a standard size or a well-known model. Source for this figure: ISO 216 (Wikipedia, citing ISO 216).
How heavy is that?
- A sheet of paper weighs about as much as 5 paperclips.
- A sheet of paper weighs about as much as 200 grains of rice.
- It takes about 12 sheets of paper to balance an egg.
- It takes about 900 sheets of paper to balance a cat.
About the same weight
More everyday objects
- Metal bottle cap 2.1 g
- LEGO brick 2.32 g
- US penny 2.5 g
- Credit card 5 g
- US nickel 5 g
- US quarter 5.67 g
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