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Both the long and short ton 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 U.S. system (short or net hundredweight). The spelling '' Tonne '' denotes the metric tonne of 1,000 kilograms (approximately 2,204.623 pounds). A short ton–force is 2,000 Pounds-force (8,896 Newton s). SEE ALSO
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