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metric ton Definition

metric ton

metric ton Usage Examples

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.