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Global rare-earth oxide production totaled about 390,000 metric tons in 2025, up from about 124,000 a decade earlier.
From Barron's • May 18, 2026
"In addition, since free energy is a universal thermodynamic metric, our model can be extended to other systems with similar characteristics."
From Science Daily • May 18, 2026
That is more than five times Nvidia’s multiple on the same metric.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
In 2024, humans put about 41.6 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent in the atmosphere.
From Slate • May 15, 2026
When at last he had finished his calculations, Cavendish announced that the Earth weighed a little over 13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds, or six billion trillion metric tons, to use the modern measure.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
Vocabulary lists containing metric
This Week in Pop Culture: December 8 -14, 2018
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Measurement and Data, List 2
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This Week in Words: Current Events Vocab for October 2–October 8, 2021
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