But we sure seem to need them now, downing sugar measured in tonnage, an astronomical number of calories, and spending fortunes for the privilege of propagating our collective risk for obesity and diabetes.
A reliable estimation of grade and tonnage of a mineral deposit has a considerable impact on the success of a mining project and initial capital cost prediction.
Tonnage is a measurement of a vessel's volume and is used for international, customs, and regulatory purposes.
In the last decade of the 20th century, there was a 41 percent drop in railway tonnage and a 58 percent decrease in passenger trips by rail.
Russian officials said they suspected that the Kursk was sunk after striking a submerged object of "large tonnage," like a foreign submarine, and they were busy scouring the seabed for evidence.
The fleet tonnage is a variable depending upon F and also describes a parabolic tendency with a maximum fleet carrying capacity of 70 000 tonnes at F = 0.7.
Deadweight tonnage is a measurement of total contents of a ship including cargo, fuel, crew, passengers, food, and water aside from boiler water.
Most of these aspiring companies offer only a few grades and shapes of steel, and some of them produce about as much tonnage in a year as United States Steel pours in a day.
But all that tonnage weighs a ship down, and cargo loads declined after lake levels began a rapid decline in the late 1990's.
