metric ton

plural metric tons

1. USA unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms, about 2204.6 pounds avoirdupois.

   One typical Grecian kiln engorged one thousand muleloads of juniper wood in a single burn. Fifty such kilns would devour six thousand metric tons of trees and brush annually.

   2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion

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   Scientists and engineers are developing big machines to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, but the technology sucks up a lot of energy and money as well — as much as $1,000 per metric ton of captured CO₂. A team led by chemists at the University of California, Berkeley, has created a yellow powder that might boost this field by absorbing CO₂ much more efficiently.

   2025, “Advances: Environment. Carbon Scrubber. An exotic powder pulls CO₂ from the air at record speed”, in Scientific American, volume 332, number 2 (February), page 14

   Synonyms: tonne, ton, megagram, mul:Mg, millier