metric ton

Preposition: of

• plutonium: Russia has over a thousand metric tons of highly enriched uranium, plus 150 metric tons of plutonium.
• dioxide: Each credit is equivalent to one metric ton of carbon dioxide prevented from entering the atmosphere.
• rice: In July, Taiwan donated 40 metric tons of rice to the people of Tanzania.
• grain: This amounts to about 250,000 metric tons of wheat grain per month.
• fish: The world's fishing fleets discard at least 20 million metric tons of fish and shellfish every year as by-catch from their operations.
• water: Now then, I have supplementary ballast tanks capable of shipping 100 metric tons of water.

Converse of object

• destroy: The proposed US facility would be capable of destroying 800 metric tons of weaponized agents each year.

Preposition: per

• hectare: The average annual wheat yield of these fields is five metric tons per hectare or higher.