Short ton

 ( Units Of Mass ) 

The short ton (abbreviation: tn or st), also known as the US ton, is a measurement unit equal to . It is commonly used in the United States, where it is known simply as a ton; however, the term is ambiguous, the single word "ton" being variously used for short, long ton, and tonne tons.

The various tons are defined as units of mass.Butcher, Crown and Gentry, NIST Special Publication 1038, The International System of Units (SI) – Conversion Factors for General Use, 2006 They are sometimes used as units of weight, the force exerted by a mass at standard gravity (e.g., short ton-force). One short ton exerts a weight at one standard gravity of 2,000 pound-force (lbf).

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United States In the United States, a short ton is usually known simply as a "ton", without distinguishing it from the tonne (), known there as the "metric ton", or the long ton also known as the "imperial ton" (). There are, however, some U.S. applications where unspecified tons normally mean long tons (for example, naval ships)

or metric tons (world grain production figures).

Both the long and short ton are defined as 20 , but a hundredweight is in the US system (short or net hundredweight) and in the Imperial units (long or gross hundredweight).

A short ton–force is .

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See also

• Tonnage, volume measurement used in maritime shipping, originally based on .

Categories: Units Of Mass, Ton, Short

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