A ton, metric ton or tonne is a unit of measurement which measures mass and occasionally, energy.
Units of mass[edit | edit source]
- A single humpback whale has a mass of "about 40 tons". (TOS movie: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)
- Balok's cube had a mass of "about 2,000 metric tons". (TOS episode: "The Corbomite Maneuver")
- When the star Doona became a supernova, a surviving piece had a mass of 10,000 tons. (TOS comic: "When Planets Collide")
External links[edit | edit source]
- Ton article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- metric ton article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- short ton article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- TNT equivalent article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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