A unit for measuring the mass of CO₂ (carbon dioxide) itself — its base unit is kilograms of CO₂. This tool never converts a CO₂ figure into a CO₂e figure: they measure different things and mixing them up would be misleading.
Definition
- Dimension
- CO₂ mass
- Symbols
- g CO2, gCO2
- System
- SI
- Base factor
- ×0.001
- Exactness
- exact
Follows from an SI or definitional identity — no material assumption.
Also known as
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