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- noun Plural form of
gigajoule .
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Examples
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The mass of 7 WTC m was of order 200,000 tons, its height h was about 200 m, which gives U = 200 gigajoules.
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The object would land at two thousand meters per second, releasing twenty-four gigajoules, equal to six tons of TNT.
Scott Westerfeld: Uglies Quartet Scott Westerfeld 2010
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Men consistently used much more energy than women did on vehicles and fuel - 23 to 32 gigajoules more per year.
Green Lantern: Who's worse for the environment, me or my girlfriend? Nina Shen Rastogi 2010
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Total energy consumption ranged from 105 gigajoules for Swedish women to 313 gigajoules for Norwegian men.
Green Lantern: Who's worse for the environment, me or my girlfriend? Nina Shen Rastogi 2010
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MGC was allowed to take a maximum of six million gigajoules of gas a year but this was not sufficient to meet the growing demand for gas in
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Africa, but between 10 and 14 million gigajoules of this still did not have a market.
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It was designed to have a capacity to transport 240 million gigajoules of gas a year.
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The company was already using 5.8 million gigajoules, reported the paper.
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"The current 5.8 million gigajoules is not enough."
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About 114 million gigajoules should be pumped annually to South
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