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tonne (tun)

noun

a metric ton; 1,000 kg
tonne Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • dioxide: In Britain, the average person creates around 10 tons of carbon dioxide every year, compared to the two tons produced by Africans.
  • rubbish: Cambridgeshire residents have diverted over 110,000 tons of rubbish from landfill during 2004/05.
  • waste: The compost facility can except 24,000 tons of green waste only per annum.
  • carbon: On average, farmers will sequester about 60 tons of carbon per hectare, resulting in $ 480 per hectare.
  • plutonium: The Soviet Union produced an estimated 1,200 tons of HEU and up to 400 tons of plutonium for direct use in nuclear weapons.
  • cargo: It handles some 50 million tons of cargo per annum.

Converse of object

  • weigh: A fixed position heavy lift crane can lift individual pieces weighing 217 tons to or from the river.
  • emit: The average house emits 8 tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year.
  • recycle: The company has the capacity to recycle 4,000 tons per year.
  • divert: This represents 3,900 tons diverted from landfill - enough to fill 100 double-decker busses and save 66,000 trees from felling.
  • exceed: The marine catch in Chile, which exceeded 8 million tons in 1994, fell to just 3.6 million tons in 2002.
  • consume: The plant is located at the center of England's poultry producing region and consumes 420,000 tons of litter each year.

Adjective modifier

  • metric: The tools which weigh up to 50 metric tons, can be changed in just over ten minutes.

Modifies a noun

  • lorry: I have already progressed onto driving a 7.5 ton lorry.
  • payload: Maximum 12 ton payload mounted in ISO compatible containers.
  • kilometer: Around 18 billion ton kilometers of freight was carried by rail in 2000.
  • crane: It was erected onto its bearing using an 800 ton crane on 07 September 1998.
  • excavator: Standing on the half-built bridge is the 43 ton excavator - this is to test the bridge!

Preposition: per

  • annum: Total requirement is 55,000 tons per annum by 2011.
  • hectare: In August we harvest the peas hope to get about 5 tons per hectare.

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