The word "ton" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun or an adjective, usually in terms of expressing a large amount or quantity. For example, "There were tons of people at the concert."
Syria paid $505.909 per ton for the fuel, compared with today's market price of $800 per ton.
The deal outlined cash payments for 720,000 tons of fuel oil to Syria in monthly shipments, the paper said: Iraq offered Syria a discount of 50% below the market price, plus a $5 discount per metric ton, according to the contract.
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"The smallest piece weighed ¾ of a ton.
It is a suggestion that Shapps has repeatedly denied for three years, but the Guardian has discovered a recording from the summer of 2006 in which the Conservative MP for Welwyn Hatfield boasts his products could make listeners a "ton of cash by Christmas".
"It has been a ton of fun doing this show for the last nine years, thank you for giving us this award," Colbert said.
However there are many big businesses, including some energy companies, still calling for the trillion-ton carbon budget.
The 2.6 metre-high, two-ton stone was unveiled with great fanfare in the marginal seat of Hastings, and featured Labour's six key election promises.
Lighter, aluminium freight wagons, double-decker ones and more fuel-efficient locomotives have lifted the number of ton-miles per (American) gallon of fuel from 332 to 457 an improvement of 38%.But the fastest-growing part of rail freight has been "intermodal" traffic: containers or truck trailers loaded on to flat railcars.
The Telharmonium, a 200-ton mechanical ancestor of the Hammond organ designed to be played down the telephone, had allowed musicians to tinker with sound waves to produce interesting new noises as early as 1897.
