Convert 3,000 Calories to Joules
How much energy is 3,000 Calories? How many joules are in 3 thousand Calories? 3,000 kcal to J conversion.
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3,000 Nutritional Calories =
12,552,000 Joules
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Result in Plain English
3,000 Calories is equal to about 12.6 million joules.
In Scientific Notation
3,000 Calories
= 3 x 103 Calories
= 1.2552 x 107 joules
Calories
A nutritional Calorie, or kilocalorie, is commonly used in food labeling. It is equal to 4.184 kilojoules. The average American consumes about 2,700 kilocalories per day.
Joules
A joule is the standard unit of energy. On the surface of the Earth, it takes about 9.8 joules to lift a 1 kilogram object by 1 meter.