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NOUN
  1. a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms

How To Use metric ton In A Sentence

  • The baseline is the 2006 figures of 12.4 million metric tons CO2 equivalent. Eco Libris: Book Industry Announces Carbon Reducion Goals
  • More than 1.3 million metric tons of grain sorghum are used annually to produce ethanol in the United States and the number is expected to increase in the future.
  • In the last few years, 55, 000 reptile skins from India, 19, 000 big-eye thresher shark fins in Ecuador and 23 metric tonnes of pangolin in Asia have all been seized.
  • KREEP basalts on the moon are 10-20 ppm Th. There was a single fragment from one of the Apollo missions with 50 ppm Th. The reserve base for terrestrial Th is 1. 2M metric tons, but going to ores as dilute as KREEP basalts would expand the reserve base enormously. Dennis Wingo - Why Space? Why Now? - NASA Watch
  • Sesa Goa said it will consider ways to restart construction at Bellary Steel's stee plant with a capacity to produce 500,000 metric tons a year. Sesa Goa Buys Bellary Steel for 2.2 Billion Rupees
  • The average cost of producing adipic acid was just over $1,750 a metric ton in June, while the sales prices in the benchmark Chinese market were barely higher, at around $1,800 a metric ton, according to industry consultant PCI Nylon GmbH. French Firm Cashes In
  • The Bush Administration airlifted 25 metric tons of shrink-wrapped centrifuges, uranium and sensitive documentation to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, staging a dramatic press conference with commandos guarding the loot as if it contained actual nuclear weapons. Michael Bronner: Civil War (Hold the Mustard...)
  • The boat was carrying 6000 metric tons of styrene, isopropyl and methyl ethyl ketone.
  • Geologists estimate, and re-estimate, the Earth's carbon reservoir at more than 75 million billion metric tons, mostly buried in limestone, dolomite, ossified gunk called kerogen, coal, oil, and natural gas. Grist - the Latest from Grist
  • The North Sea is a highly productive LME supporting average landings of 2.5 million metric tons of fish and shellfish every year. North Sea large marine ecosystem
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