why do we call it a ton?
Right so this is not very smart question but i am bored so here goes:
Imagine if we called it MEGAgram! now that'd sound better than ton to my ears.
so i am wondering why are we using ton in its stead.
Right so this is not very smart question but i am bored so here goes:
Imagine if we called it MEGAgram! now that'd sound better than ton to my ears.
so i am wondering why are we using ton in its stead.
Anonymous
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derrived from tun referring to a large cask/capacity, which the largest was supposed to carry roughly around the same weight.
Anonymous
If you are so bored why not do some research rather than expecting others to spoon feed you the answer. It would relive your boredom and you would learn more if you did the research.
A ton is an imperial measurement and not a metric one. A million grams is NOT the same as an imperial ton.
In the metric system you use megagram in SI Units. However, while favoured by science and the best one to use to ensure consistency the SI system is not THE metric system. There are others.
The term tonne can be used but if correctly applying the SI Units metric system you would use one megagram / 1 Mg which could also be written 1 x 10^6 g.
Anonymous
Actually, it's tonne.
Anonymous
What sounds strange to me is that a fundamental quantity, such as the kg in SI (International System of Units) is thousand times (k) another quantity such as the gram
babyboomer1001
TonNE. If you knew how to spell it.... You also don't seem to know the meaning of mega. It would not apply to a gram. They are contradictory terms.