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   From: crwlrjeff@yahoo.com   
      
   "Matthew Russotto"  wrote in message   
   news:goTjp.360$uy2.2@newsfe05.iad...   
   > In article ,   
   > Jeff Strickland  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>I don't know that it was a Democrat or not, but a kiloton is a   
   >>thousand-ton,   
   >>so 18 kilotons is 18 thousand tons. I'm not sure this is a metric   
   >>measurement...   
   >   
   > Nowadays the kiloton is defined such that a gram of TNT is one   
   > kilocalorie.  I suspect that back in 1945 it was more likely to have   
   > been related to an American short ton rather than a metric ton,   
   > though.   
   >   
      
      
   Kilo is the number of the measurment units, it means one thousand. Ton is   
   the measurement unit, and is a non-metric measurment unit. A kiloton is   
   nothing more than one thousand tons. One thousand non-metric units of   
   measure.   
      
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