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metric ton

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metric ton

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metric ton (pluralmetric tons)

(chiefly US) Aunit ofmassequal to 1000kilograms, about 2204.6pounds avoirdupois.
Alternative forms:metric tonne;MT,T,t(symbols)
Synonyms:tonne(chiefly UK),ton(often proscribed);megagram,Mg(uncommon),millier(archaic)
Hypernym:ton(broad sense)
Coordinate terms:long ton,short ton,measurement ton,register ton
- 2006,Edwin Black, chapter 2, inInternal Combustion‎^[1]:
  One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousandmetric tons of trees and brush annually.
- 2025, “Advances: Environment. Carbon Scrubber. An exotic powder pulls CO₂ from the air at record speed”, inScientific American, volume332, number 2 (February), page14:
  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 permetric 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

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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 casetonne is preferred.