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  2. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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    The metric ton is the name used for the tonne (1000 kg, 2 204.622 62 lb), which is 1.58% less than the long ton and is 10.23% more than the short ton. The US customary system also includes the kip , equivalent to 1,000 pounds of force, which is also occasionally used as a unit of weight of 1,000 pounds (usually in engineering contexts).

  3. Imperial and US customary measurement systems - Wikipedia

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    The definition of units of weight above a pound differed between the customary and the imperial system - the imperial system employed the stone of 14 pounds, the hundredweight of 8 stone [Note 6] and the ton of 2240 pounds (20 hundredweight), while the customary system of units did not employ the stone but has a hundredweight of 100 pounds and ...

  4. United States customary units - Wikipedia

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    1 Quad 10 15 BTU, one quadrillion BTU (short-scale) or 1.055×10 18 joule (1.055 exajoules or EJ) Power 1 horsepower ≈ 745.7 W; 1 ton of refrigeration (12,000 Btu/h) = 3.517 kW; Pressure 1 inch of mercury = the pressure produced by 1 inch height of mercury = 3,386.39 pascals (33.8639 hPa, millibars) 1 pound per square inch (psi) ≈ 6,895 Pa ...

  5. Ton - Wikipedia

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    Harbour ton, used in South Africa in the 20th century, was equivalent to (2,000 pounds (907 kg)) or 1 short ton. Assay ton (abbreviation 'AT') is not a unit of measurement but a standard quantity used in assaying ores of precious metals. A short assay ton is approximately 29.17 g (1.029 oz) and a long assay ton is approximately 32.67 g (1.152 oz).

  6. Imperial units - Wikipedia

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    The imperial hundredweight is 12% greater than the US and Canadian one. The imperial ton (or long ton) is 2240 pounds, which is much closer to a tonne (about 2 204.6 pounds), compared to the 10.7% smaller North American short ton of 2 000 pounds (907.185 kg). Gravitational units: slug (slug) 32.174 048 56: 14.593 902 94 kg

  7. Units of measurement in transportation - Wikipedia

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    For instance, it appears to compare different kind of roads in some publications as it had been computed on a five-year period between 1995 and 2000. [8] In the United States, it is computed per 100 million miles traveled, while internationally it is computed in 100 million or 1 billion kilometers traveled.

  8. Long ton - Wikipedia

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    A long ton, also called the weight ton (W/T), [1] imperial ton, or displacement ton, is equal to: 2,240 pounds (1,016.0 kilograms; 1.0160 metric tons) exactly 12% more than the 2,000 pounds of the North American short ton, being 20 long hundredweight (112 lb) rather than 20 short hundredweight (100 lb) the weight of 35 cubic feet (0.991 m 3) [2 ...

  9. Hundredweight - Wikipedia

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    Its value differs between the United States customary and British imperial systems. The two values are distinguished in American English as the short and long hundredweight and in British English as the cental and imperial hundredweight. The short hundredweight or cental of 100 pounds (45.36 kg) is defined in the United States customary system. [1]