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1. tonnes

   The tonne ( (listen) or ; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI. It is also referred to as a metric ton to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton (United States customary units), and the long ton (British imperial units). It is equivalent to approximately 2204.6 pounds, 1.102 short tons, and 0.984 long tons. The official SI unit is the megagram (symbol: Mg), a less common way to express the same mass.

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1. Tonnes

   Tonnes is a village in the northern part of the municipality of Lurøy in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the mainland coast, about 100 kilometres northwest of the town of Mo i Rana. It is north of the islands of Aldra and Lurøya, east of Hestmona, and south of Rangsundøya.

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1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'tonnes' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4714

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1. sonnet

2. tenons

3. nonets

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of tonnes in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of tonnes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of tonnes in a Sentence

1. Zhang Ji:

   That is only 10 million tonnes less than the capacity in Europe.

2. Marco Attisani:

   What you are looking at is a big machine, it's an infrastructural machine. It's 40 meters long, 15 meters wide, and 15 tonnes, primarily it's a computer, a big computer that deals with things that computers do normally. They calculate, they broadcast, they collect, they send them to the cloud, they interact with humans.

3. Wood Mackenzie:

   Large smelting capacity for copper, zinc and lead is located in the target area and will need to either upgrade to meet new emission norms or face production curbs, cost pressure will likely increase. Our analysis on copper smelters shows up to 2.6 million tonnes a year capacity could be affected.

4. Lucy Luo Minghui:

   In a month we've collected just 650 tonnes, if we don't have enough material, our business is at a loss because we must pay for workers, electricians and water.

5. Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts:

   If the drought continues through June 2018, we will be forced to slash this forecast back to 10.5-10.7 million tonnes.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnes
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=tonnes