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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. Trond Jensen:

   It has been difficult to reach our warehouses. I know there has been medical supplies stuck in Aden, 50 tonnes of it at least, there has been food and other supplies that we haven't been able to access.

2. Pablo Alcazar:

   Right now we're producing about 230,000 per year and this should double that output to produce about 500,000 tonnes per year.

3. Carlo Calenda:

   At a certain point it was very unclear due to the tonnes of declarations that were going around ... Basically we asked (today) to speed up the process.

4. Ding Liping:

   This is the company's phase-one investment for a total of 2.5 million tonnes per year ethylene production facilities that will process fully U.S. ethane.

5. Johnny Stuen:

   So 300,000 tonnes comes here every year and we can capture 300,000 tonnes CO2 from those 300,000 tonnes of waste. So it's approximately one ton of CO2 per ton of waste that can be captured.

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References

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