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Both long and short tons are defined as 20 Hundredweight s, but a hundredweight is 112 pounds (which is equal to 8 Stone ) in the Imperial system (long or gross hundredweight) and 100 pounds in the US system (short or net hundredweight).

The spelling " Tonne " denotes the metric tonne of 1000 kilograms (approximately 2204.623 pounds).


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