long ton\text{long ton}

UK long ton

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The UK long ton is exactly 2240 avoirdupois pounds, or 1016.0469088 kilograms. It is exact because the pound is exact. It is the traditional British ton, still used in shipping displacement and in some commodity contracts.

Watch out: It is about 12 percent heavier than the US short ton and 1.6 percent heavier than the metric tonne. The metric tonne sits so close to the long ton that a shipping figure quoted in unqualified tons is often left unchallenged when it is wrong by the whole difference.

1 long ton\text{long ton} 1,016.0469 kg\text{kg}
Where the unit came from

Twenty hundredweight of 112 pounds each. The odd 112 comes from the medieval wool trade, where a hundredweight of eight stone was near enough to a hundred for commerce and much easier to halve repeatedly.

One uk long ton in every mass unit

6.11878e+29unified atomic mass unit (dalton) (u)
1.01605e+18picogram (pg)
1.01605e+15nanogram (ng)
1,016,050,000,000microgram (μg)
1,016,050,000milligram (mg)
101,605,000centigram (cg)
15,680,000grain (gr)
5,080,230metric carat (ct)
1,016,050gram (g)
653,333pennyweight (dwt)
573,440dram (dr)
35,840ounce (oz)
32,666.7troy ounce (oz t)
2,722.22troy pound (lb t)
2,240pound (lb)
1,016.05kilogram (kg)
160stone (st)
69.6213slug (slug)
22.4US hundredweight (cwt)
20UK long hundredweight (cwt (UK))
10.1605quintal (q)
1.12US short ton (ton)
1.01605metric tonne (t)
1UK long ton (long ton)this unit
0.00101605kilotonne (kt)
0.00000101605megatonne (Mt)
1.01605e-09gigatonne (Gt)
1.70129e-22Earth mass (Mearth)
5.10985e-28solar mass (Msun)