kilo metric ton (kmt)
French translation: kilotonne
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| 07:40 Feb 4, 2014 |
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|  Selected response from: Tony M France Local time: 10:34 | ||||||
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peer agreement (net): +7kilotonne Explanation: As 'tonne' is by default metric, there is no need to specifically state that in a metric culture. And of course, this is just a large unit of 'thousands of tonnes' (cf. megaton for nuclear bombs etc.) -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 35 minutes (2014-02-04 08:16:11 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Tonne (unité) - Wikipédia fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonne_(unité) une kilotonne (1 kt) vaut mille tonnes, soit 10^6 kg ; une mégatonne (1 Mt) vaut ... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 38 minutes (2014-02-04 08:19:10 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Even though 'kiloton' is relatively unusual in everyday FR, and most often carries the connotation of nuclear bombs etc., it is nonetheless a perfectly acceptable SI unit for referring to a thousand tonnes (1,000 t), finding special application in fields like mining, one of the few fields where such large quantitites are common. |
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