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Ton
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TON. Twenty hundred weight, each hundred weight being one hundred and twelve pounds avoirdupois. See act of congress of Aug. 30, 1842, c. 270, s. 20.


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The more powerful of those bombs--the one that hit Hiroshima--had a force of 15 kilotons.
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