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For the cubic ton, the situation is more complex—there are different cubic tons for different materials. The 1964 Reader's Digest Great Encyclopaedic Dictionary gave the following ton-derived volumes: Timber, 40 cubic feet or 480.0 bd ft or 1.133 m 3; Stone, 16 cubic feet (0.453 m 3) Salt, 42 US bushels (1.480 m 3) Lime, 40 US bushels (1.410 m 3)
The ton is derived from the tun, the term applied to a cask of the largest capacity.This could contain a volume between 175 and 213 imperial gallons (210 and 256 US gal; 800 and 970 L), which could weigh around 2,000 pounds (910 kg) and occupy some 60 cubic feet (1.7 m 3) of space.
cubic centimetre of atmosphere; standard cubic centimetre: cc atm; scc ≡ 1 atm × 1 cm 3 = 0.101 325 J: cubic foot of atmosphere; standard cubic foot: cu ft atm; scf ≡ 1 atm × 1 ft 3 = 2.869 204 480 9344 × 10 3 J: cubic foot of natural gas: ≡ 1000 BTU IT = 1.055 055 852 62 × 10 6 J: cubic yard of atmosphere; standard cubic yard: cu yd ...
A cubic metre of pure water at the temperature of maximum density (3.98 °C) and standard atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa) has a mass of 1000 kg, or one tonne.At 0 °C, the freezing point of water, a cubic metre of water has slightly less mass, 999.972 kilograms.
The tonne (/ t ʌ n / ⓘ or / t ɒ n /; symbol: t) is a unit of mass equal to 1,000 kilograms.It is a non-SI unit accepted for use with SI.It is also referred to as a metric ton in the United States to distinguish it from the non-metric units of the short ton (United States customary units) and the long ton (British imperial units).
A long ton, also called the weight ton (W/T), [1] imperial ton, or displacement ton, is equal to: . 2,240 pounds (1,016.0 kilograms; 1.0160 metric tons) exactly 12% more than the 2,000 pounds of the North American short ton, being 20 long hundredweight (112 lb) rather than 20 short hundredweight (100 lb)
Therefore the volume of hold space required for several tuns was greater than the total of the capacity of those tuns. 252 imperial gallons is just over 40 cubic feet (1.1 m 3). British practice by the 19th century was for a ton of cargo volume to be 50 cubic feet (1.4 m 3).
A cubic ton is an antiquated measure of volume, varying based on the commodity from about 16 to 45 cu ft (0.45 to 1.27 m 3). It is now only used for lumber, for which one cubic ton is equivalent to 40 cu ft (1.1 m 3).