as a metric ton in the United States to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton (United States customary units) and the long ton (British...

ton, which is 2,000 pounds (907.2 kilograms) the tonne, also called the metric ton, which is 1,000 kilograms (about 2,204.6 pounds) or 1 megagram. Its original...

simply as a ton; however, the term is ambiguous, the single word "ton" being variously used for short, long, and metric tons. The various tons are defined...

pounds (1,016.0 kilograms; 1.0160 metric tons) exactly 12% more than the 2,000 pounds of the North American short ton, being 20 long hundredweight (112...

A ton-force is one of various units of force defined as the weight of one ton due to standard gravity. The precise definition depends on the definition...

barrels of crude oil per metric ton = API gravity + 131.5 141.5 × 0.159 {\displaystyle {\text{barrels of crude oil per metric ton}}={\frac {{\text{API gravity}}+131...

and a weight of 455 metric tons (502 short tons). More well known is the iconic 25 metres (82 ft), 331-metric-ton (365-short-ton) Vatican obelisk at Saint...

(1 gigacalorie), which is the approximate energy released in the detonation of a metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of TNT. In other words, for each gram of TNT exploded...

US$1,250 per troy ounce ($40 per gram) reached on 16 August 2017, one metric ton of gold has a value of approximately $40.2 million. The total value of...

thousand metric tons of deadweight (DWT) to ultra-large crude carriers (ULCCs) of 550,000 DWT. Tankers move approximately 2.0 billion metric tons (2.2 billion...