This surprised me: " The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg (6,600 short tons)"
I always tought that one ton was equal to 1,000kg. So this could be a typing mistake on wikipedia, but then I followed the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton and found out that is quite a mess its definition:
"In the United Kingdom the ton is defined as 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg) (avoirdupois pounds).[2] From 1965 the UK embarked upon a programme of metrication and gradually introduced metric units, including the tonne (metric ton), defined as 1000 kg (2,204.6 lbs). The UK Weights and Measures Act 1985 explicitly excluded from use for trade many units and terms, including the ton and the term "metric ton" for "tonne".[3]
In the United States and formerly Canada[4] a ton is defined to be 2,000 pounds (907 kg)."
Any case, for me, living in a country using the metric system, appears that I should use the word "tonne" as translation for "tonelada" (metric ton in portuguese). This means that I am thinking the wrong quantity whenever I read "ton" on a american text. Quite a discovery!
thanks! as the hyperlink was only at thw word "ton" (and to the url above); I assumed "short" was part of the phrase, not of the unit name. Something meaning that 6,600 was a rounded number or something like that (enlgish is not my first language).
This surprised me: " The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg (6,600 short tons)"
I always tought that one ton was equal to 1,000kg. So this could be a typing mistake on wikipedia, but then I followed the link to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ton and found out that is quite a mess its definition:
"In the United Kingdom the ton is defined as 2,240 pounds (1,016 kg) (avoirdupois pounds).[2] From 1965 the UK embarked upon a programme of metrication and gradually introduced metric units, including the tonne (metric ton), defined as 1000 kg (2,204.6 lbs). The UK Weights and Measures Act 1985 explicitly excluded from use for trade many units and terms, including the ton and the term "metric ton" for "tonne".[3]
In the United States and formerly Canada[4] a ton is defined to be 2,000 pounds (907 kg)."
Any case, for me, living in a country using the metric system, appears that I should use the word "tonne" as translation for "tonelada" (metric ton in portuguese). This means that I am thinking the wrong quantity whenever I read "ton" on a american text. Quite a discovery!