long ton in English

noun

British unit of weight that equals to 2240 pounds (1,016.047 kilograms or 1.016 metric tons)

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1. The Bessemer process revolutionized steel manufacture by decreasing its cost, from £40 per long ton to £6–7 per long ton, along with greatly increasing the scale and speed of production of this vital raw material.