metric ton
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[edit]metric ton (plural metric tons)
- (chiefly US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.
- 2025, “Advances: Environment. Carbon Scrubber. An exotic powder pulls CO₂ from the air at record speed”, in Scientific American, volume 332, number 2 (February), page 14:
- Scientists and engineers are developing big machines to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but the technology sucks up a lot of energy and money as well — as much as $1,000 per metric ton of captured CO₂. A team led by chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, has created a yellow powder that might boost this field by absorbing CO₂ much more efficiently.
Usage notes
[edit]Infrequently used in Commonwealth countries (including Britain) in contexts where confusion might arise between the metric ton and the traditional English tons of 2000 or 2240 pounds, in which case tonne is preferred.
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[edit]unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms
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