short ton

Often, the short ton is used to measure objects that have a very large weight.

Today, we produce and sell over 8 million short tons of fertilizer.

China produced more than three times that amount, generating 3.2 billion short tons.

The tank had a weight of about fifty short tons.

There are roughly 2 short tons in a cord of wood.

In Illinois the state transportation department said it began this winter with 600,000 short tons of salt on hand.

It's only worth about five hundred a short ton.

A thousand short tons a day because of meteor impacts.

It is the power required to melt or freeze one short ton of ice per day.

The official said the plant was currently producing at an annual production rate of 140,000 short tons per year.

During the contract, the plant produced 69 short tons of uranium metal in total.

Its total weight when fully equipped would have reached 95 short tons (86 tonnes).

At five hundred a short ton, who's going to believe anyone could smuggle enough to make a profit?

Mexico's cane farmers also harvested a record 7.4m short tons of sugar.

It is one of the heaviest tanks in service, weighing almost 70 short tons.

The weight of a cubic yard varies, but averages about 2.4 short tons.

The company extracted over fourteen million short tons of coal from those three mines in 2007.

As winter was approaching and work set to stop, 550 short tons of stone were loaded onto the pier, "mostly on the high side."

We exercised an option for 2000 short tons a month, so I do not think that portion of this confirm needs to be revised.

During this period, an estimated 17 million short tons grading 0.12 oz/ton gold was produced.

By contrast, Peabody averaged 296 million short tons of coal for every miner killed.

They took fifty million short tons of coal from this seam alone, and left huge caverns behind.

Out of the over forty-four known machines, only five do not weigh over a short ton.

It is capable of carrying the same 16.5 short ton payload as the prime mover.

He said Grasberg operated at rates greater than 66,000 short tons per day during the second quarter. '