metric ton

Noun

metric ton (plural metric tons)

1. (US) A 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
   • 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...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, millier