tonne

[US]/tʌn/
[UK]/tʌn/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. Metric ton (equal to 1,000 kilograms)

Phrases & Collocations

tonne of wheat

tonne of coal

Example Sentences

a 25-tonne oil spill.

a tonne of highly enriched uranium

Artist's impression of a 45-tonne Pliosaur attacking a Plesiosaur.

one tonne of plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel

Tonnes of waste are produced every year.

Every tonne of coal contains,on average,30 kilograms of nitrogen.

The grain store holds several thousand tonnes.

the ship was carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude.

consumption grew, resulting in a 180,000-tonne drawdown in stocks.

tonnes of food aid awaiting distribution had been looted.

Driving a 20 tonne camion into a narrow truck depot, pickin...

In the 1970s, for instance, West Coast trawlers were landing 11,000 tonnes of bocaccio a year.In 2001, just before the fishery was closed, the catch was 214 tonnes.

It contained approximately a tonne and a half of fish, of which 65 per cent were under moratoria – cod fish, American plaice, and red fish," he said.

The Curronian Bay including the lower Nemunas, is the richest freshwater source of fish in Lithuania, where fish production (pikeperch, smelt, roach) is 1,300 tonnes a year.

At this moment we already received orders to design Floating Sheerlegs from 2000 to 5000 tonnes lifting capacity, Self-Unloading Barges, Grab crane pontoons, etc.

Real-world Examples

They cast it and poured 63 tonnes of molten bronze into that cast.

Source: BBC documentary "Chinese New Year"

Then I found three tonnes of spring onion.

Source: Gourmet Base

It uses only about 50 tonnes of Namie rice.

Source: VOA Special March 2023 Collection

The first batch of 40,000 blankets weighed 84 tonnes.

Source: CRI Online February 2023 Collection

But worldwide, we're using 50 billion tonnes every year.

Source: Cheddar Science Interpretation (Bilingual Selected)

But that means taking a tonne of equipment up this cliff.

Source: BBC documentary "Our Planet"

The cargo transported by the railway includes 100,000 tonnes of cross-border goods.

Source: CRI Online January 2022 Collection

Every night, the bats eat six tonnes of insects.

Source: Human Planet

But each shale gas well needs 15,000 tonnes of water a year to run.

Source: The Economist - China

The bones reveal it stood four metres tall and weighed more than 10 tonnes.

Source: North American Great Plains - Wild New World

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