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a thousand kilograms wearing an extra letter so the world knows it's not American.
means A metric unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms, used in most of the world (and spelled this way to distinguish it from the slightly different American 'short ton').
from From French 'tonne,' which traces back through Latin to a Germanic word for a large cask or barrel — the same root that gives English 'ton' and 'tun' (a big wine vessel). A unit of weight born from how much a barrel could hold; the extra '-ne' is simply the French spelling, kept in the metric world to flag the precise 1,000-kg meaning.
- metric vs imperial
- Tonne is 1000kg; the US ton is lighter.
- spelling truce
- Extra n separates it from the imperial ton.
- water trick
- One cubic metre of water weighs nearly a tonne.
- carbon currency
- Emissions are traded by the tonne worldwide.
- megagram alias
- Officially equals one megagram in SI units.
african bush elephant — weighs up to 6-7 tonnes, largest land animal on earth
blue whale — weighs up to 190 tonnes, largest animal ever known
airbus a380 — maximum takeoff weight of 575 tonnes, world's largest passenger airliner