Ton
Ton (short ton) = 2000 pounds ≈ 907 kg. The American big weight.
Started life as a huge wine barrel (tun). Turned into the standard for heavy stuff over time.
Cars, trucks, dumpsters, how much gravel you need for the driveway, freight trains – heavy American industrial life.
Metric Tonne
Metric tonne (mt) = 1000 kg. Roughly 2200 pounds. Serious industrial weight.
Just naturally appeared later in the metric system when people needed to talk about really big loads.
Shipping containers, truckloads, how many tons of wheat a farmer got, concrete orders, basically anything that needs a crane.
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