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I learned from this article that there is a non-metric ton :(. (The idea didn't even occur to me. The German school system taught me 1t=1000kg, and that's it.
by eqvinox 6y ago
I learned from this article that there is a non-metric ton :(.
(The idea didn't even occur to me. The German school system taught me 1t=1000kg, and that's it.)
- jcims 6y agoIt’s worse than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_ton
- Symbiote 6y agoBritish English (and the SI standard) uses the spelling "tonne" to mean 1000kg, with "ton" meaning one of the obsolete units. American English prefers "metric ton", but they haven't obsoleted the old units. The ESA uses "tonne": https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris/Space_debris_by_the_numbers https://www.esa.int/Safety_Security/Space_Debris/Space_debri... A "tun" is a type of barrel (Latin: tunna, German "Tonne"). One could contain roughly a tonne of liquid.