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* The {{USS|Equinox}} had a '''2 kiloton''' supply of [[kemacite]] ore. ({{VOY|Equinox}})
 
* The {{USS|Equinox}} had a '''2 kiloton''' supply of [[kemacite]] ore. ({{VOY|Equinox}})
   
* The [[Xepolite freighter]] commanded by [[Drofo Awa]] claimed to have '''5 kilotons''' of [[Regrean wheat]] husks in his cargo hold. ({{DS9|The Maquis, Part II}})
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* The [[Xepolite freighter]] commanded by [[Drofo Awa]] claimed to have '''5 kilotons''' of [[Regreein wheat]] husks in his cargo hold. ({{DS9|The Maquis, Part II}})
   
 
* ''Voyager'' retrieved '''8 kilotons''' of debris from the [[Borg probe]], mostly fragments of its [[hull]]. ({{VOY|Dark Frontier}})
 
* ''Voyager'' retrieved '''8 kilotons''' of debris from the [[Borg probe]], mostly fragments of its [[hull]]. ({{VOY|Dark Frontier}})

Revision as of 21:54, 31 January 2015

A ton, metric ton or tonne is a unit of mass and occasionally of energy. It is equal to 1 megagram ( = 1000 kilograms).

Several of the references below are explicit uses of the S.I. metric unit. Otherwise it is not impossible that what is used is the US/Imperial unit ( = 2000 pounds).

Units of mass

  • The Quarren facility was capable of producing 8,000 metric tons of tylium per second at 94% thermal efficiency. (VOY: "Workforce")

Units of energy

A ton is also a way of indicating the energy released by an explosion of one metric ton of TNT - 4.184 gigajoules. In the 20th century nuclear weapons were graded by megatonnage - by the millions of megagrams of TNT they equalled.

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