Some articles on tons:
... prawns (excluding crayfish and crabs) in 2003 was about 280,000 tons, of which China produced some 180,000 tons, followed by India and Thailand with some 35,000 tons each ... Additionally, China produced about 370,000 tons of Chinese river crab (Eriocheir sinensis) ...
... the RAF flying boats, and carried 2,600 tons of fuel oil, 550 tons of diesel, and 90 tons of petroleum ...
... sizes Length Weight Bull 16 metres (52 ft) 41,000 kilograms (40 long tons 45 short tons) Cow 11 metres (36 ft) 14,000 kilograms (14 long tons 15 short tons) Newborn 4 metres (13 ft ... Beaked Whale measures 12.8 metres (42 ft) and weighs up to 15 short tons (14,000 kg) ... (60 ft) in length or 51,000 kilograms (50 long tons 56 short tons) in weight ...
... Tons can refer to Tons River, a major river in India the plural of ton, a unit of mass, force, volume, energy or power short ton, 2,000 pounds, used in the United States ...
... m2 (16,160 sq ft) 67.05 m (220.0 ft) 189 tons Ranger 1937 41.15 m (135.0 ft) 26.51 m (87.0 ft) 701 m2 (7,550 sq ft) 46.98 m (154.1 ft) 166 tons KZ1 1988 36.57 ...
Famous quotes containing the word tons:
“A man shall perhaps rush by and trample down plants as high as his head, and cannot be said to know that they exist, though he may have cut many tons of them, littered his stables with them, and fed them to his cattle for years. Yet, if he ever favorably attends to them, he may be overcome by their beauty.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“Coal is a portable climate. It carries the heat of the tropics to Labrador and the polar circle; and it is the means of transporting itself whithersoever it is wanted. Watt and Stephenson whispered in the ear of mankind their secret, that a half-ounce of coal will draw two tons a mile, and coal carries coal, by rail and by boat, to make Canada as warm as Calcutta, and with its comfort brings its industrial power.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)