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Ton vs. Tonne
Ton
/tʌn/Examples:
The silence weighed a thousand tons.Hence, the division: rights to the ton, duties to the gram.The Miyazu boat is a two-and-a-half ton Japanese-style one.
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This word has no antonymsTonne
/tʌn/Examples:
The cargo ship can carry up to 50,000 tonnes.Each turbine weighs nearly 150 tonnes.Farmers collect about 3 tonnes of wheat per hectare.
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Ways to tell them apart:
- Ton is primarily used in the United States to refer to a unit of weight equal to 2,000 pounds.
- Tonne is a metric unit of weight used primarily outside the US, equivalent to 1,000 kilograms.
- Remember that tonne ends with an e just like metre and litre, which are also metric units.
- In UK English and other variants, ton can sometimes also mean 2,240 pounds if referring to the long ton.
- Both words refer to large weights, but one is for the metric system and the other for the imperial system.
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