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		In the United States, “ton” usually refers to 2000 pounds, and the 2240-pound ton is called a “long ton.”
		The number of milligrams of precious metal in one assay ton of the ore being tested is equal to the number of troy ounces of pure precious metal in one 2000-pound av.
		The British commercial ton of refrigeration resembles the American except that it is based on a long ton (2240 pounds) of ice.
	www.sizes.com /units/ton.htm (675 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> ton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		long ton (simply ton in countries such as the United Kingdom which formerly used the Imperial system of weights and measures) is a weight ton or gross ton, and is 2,240 lb (exactly 1,016.0469088 kg).
		Both the long ton and the short ton are composed of twenty hundredweights, each having different values for the hundredweight (112 and 100 pounds respectively).
		A dry ton or dry tonne has the same mass value, but the material (sludge, slurries, compost, and similar mixtures in which solid material is soaked with or suspended in water) has been dried to a relatively low, consistent moisture level (dry weight).
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/ton (916 words)

	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Ton
		The word ton or tonne is derived from the Old English tunne, likely of Low Latin origin (as tunna), with the spelling 'tonne' introduced during the Middle English period subject to Old French influence.
		The freight ton or measurement ton is a unit of volume used for describing ship capacities (tonnage) or cargo.
		The water ton was formerly used in Great Britain and equal to 224 imperial gallons (the volume occupied by a mass of one long ton under the conditions which define the imperial gallon).
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Ton (1507 words)

	Long ton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Long Ton (sometimes known as a Gross Ton, Weight Ton, or Imperial Ton) is the name for the unit called the "Ton" in the Avoirdupois or Imperial system of measurements, as formerly used in the United Kingdom and several other Commonwealth countries.
		Both long and short tons are defined as 20 hundredweights, but a hundredweight is 112 pounds (which is equal to 8 stone) in the Imperial system (long or gross hundredweight) and 100 pounds in the US system (short or net hundredweight).
		A long ton-force is 2,240 pounds-force (9,964 newtons).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Long_ton (200 words)

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		As a displacement ton the long ton is normally measured as the mass of 35 cubic feet of sea water.
		Prior to the 15th century in England, the ton was composed of twenty hundredweights, each of 108 lb, giving a ton of 2160 pounds.
		Only the metric ton or tonne as a unit of mass is acceptable for use with SI.
	en.wikipedia.christams-ornament.com /wiki/Ton (2130 words)

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