The SI unit of weight is newton and it is denoted by ____.

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The SI unit of weight is newton and it is denoted by N.
SI unit of weight is N (newton). And,

1 kg wt = 9.8 N

“Weight of a body is the product of the mass of the body and acceleration due to gravity.” It can be written as

weight = m \times g

Where m = mass and g = acceleration due to gravity. The weight of the body depends upon these two factors. Weight is a type of gravitational force. It is a force that acts on all the objects on the earth. The earth pulls all the objects downwards with gravitational force towards the center of the earth.
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Thus, the weight of all the bodies acts downwards and is called a gravitational force. This is the reason it has the SI unit Newton, which is a unit of force.

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