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The 320-foot-tall (98 meters) rocket sports a reusable first stage and can deliver about 50 tons (45 metric tons) of payload to low Earth orbit (LEO).
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 7 Jan. 2025
Overall, Ukraine's exports rose 15% year-over-year to $41.6 billion, with maritime trade surging to 87.2 from 54.8 million metric tons in 2023, reinforcing Ukraine's position as a global agricultural export powerhouse.
—Katya Soldak, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
Time to kick off our fluffy slippers and blast away our winter daze to start 2025 correctly—by watching a metric ton of experimental theatre and dance.
—The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
Companies worldwide create roughly 460 million metric tons of plastic.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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First Known Use
1864, in the meaning defined above
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“Metric ton.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/metric%20ton. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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metric ton
noun
: a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms see metric system
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