A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
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Examples for "ton "
Examples for "ton "
1 You will say, 'Thanks a ton . ' Then you will come straight home.
2 The industry associations have done a ton of work on this, however.
3 Building the future of transportation is, by definition, a ton of work.
4 One Australian species, she notes, produces up to one ton per year.
5 Ocean Nourishment recently dumped one ton of urea into the Sulu Sea.
1 Like oil, coal costs have soared recently, but not that of lower grades, which still sell for about $10 a short ton .
2 Coal was $5.25 per short ton .
3 The coke product of the United States is more than twenty million short tons a year.
4 RGGI's current nine states emitted 90 million short tons in 2016.
5 The world's production of spelter in 1913 (the latest authentic figures obtainable) was 1,093,635 short tons .
1 Two of these latter would weigh about 250 net tons .
2 In January arrivals amounted to 2.2 million net tons .
3 Shipments increased by 8 percent to 4.1 million net tons , the highest shipping level since the third quarter of 2008.
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