metric ton en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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(US) A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois.
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.
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: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.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| metric tons | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
measurement ton · long ton · short ton · register ton
Deriveds
Hypernyms
Relateds
mul:T · MT · metric tonne · mul:t · metric shitload
Synonyms
ton · megagram · mul:Mg · millier · tonne
Translations (43)
ar طُنّ مِتْرِيّ (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · eo tuno (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · gl tonelada (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · km តូន (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · pt tonelada (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · el τόνος (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · vi tấn (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · es salma (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · sk tona (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · th ตัน (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · cmn 公噸 /公吨 (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · uk тонна (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ms tan metrik (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · pl tona (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · it tonnellata (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · sv ton (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · cmn 噸 /吨 (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · fi tonni (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · bg метричен тон (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ja グラムトン (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · uk метрична тонна (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · de Tonne (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ms tan (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · km តោន (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ml ടൺ (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · aeb طُرنَاطَة (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · fr tonne (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · es tonelada (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · br tonenn (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · yue 公噸 /公吨 (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ru метри́ческая то́нна (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · he טון (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · pt tonelada métrica (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · acw طَنّ (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · tr ton (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · cs tuna (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ja メトリックトン (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ja 屯 (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · es tonelada métrica (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · nl ton (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ja トン (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · gl tonelada métrica (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms) · ru то́нна (unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms)