Zolotniks to Metric Tons (zol to t)

1 zolotnik equals 0.000004265803958 metric tons (rounded).

1 zolotnik = 0.000004265803958 metric tons

How to convert zolotniks to metric tons

To convert zolotniks to metric tons, multiply the number of zolotniks by 0.000004265803958. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply metric tons by 234,422.3996 (rounded).

metric tons = zolotniks × 0.000004265803958

Example: 10 zolotniks = 0.00004265803958 metric tons.

About these units

Zolotnik (zol)

Russian (Imperial)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)

One 96th of a funt, about 4.266 g. A Russian unit used for gold and silver.

Zolotnik means the golden one. The name goes back to a coin that circulated in Kievan Rus until the 11th century and weighed about the same as the Byzantine solidus. As a unit it was in use from roughly the 10th century to the 20th, and it became the standard for working silver, much as the troy ounce serves precious metals elsewhere.

In the later Russian system it was one 96th of a funt, which gives about 4.2658 g, or roughly 65.8 grains. The same system split the zolotnik into 96 dolya, and three zolotniks made a lot, so the funt, lot, zolotnik and dolya formed a neat ladder of fine divisions.

Apothecaries used a lighter pound of 84 zolotniks, so the unit sometimes appears under different totals in pharmacy texts. It was retired with the other old Russian weights after 1918.

1 zolotnik = 0.004265803958 kilograms (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Zolotnik; Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement

Metric Ton (t)

Metric (SI)Current unit

1,000 kilograms (about 2,204.6 lb), also spelled tonne. Used for cargo, grain and vehicle weights outside the US.

Barrels gave the tonne its name. The word goes back to a Germanic root for a large cask, the tun, and a full tun could easily weigh around a tonne. In English this became ton; the spelling tonne has been used in France since 1842, where it replaced the older tonneau, and pre-metric French tonnes were 2,000 livres, about 979 kg. Once the metric system took hold, the tonne was fixed at 1,000 kilograms, which is the mass of roughly a cubic metre of water.

The unit is accepted for use with the SI, and its symbol is a lowercase t with no period. Because it sits close to the old English ton, the two get confused: the short ton used in the US is about 10 percent lighter than a tonne, while the long ton differs by less than 2 percent. NIST calls the unit the metric ton, and the spelling tonne is rare in the US. Very large quantities are stated in prefixed forms such as the megatonne, which equals a teragram. In explosives, a tonne of TNT is taken as about 4.2 gigajoules.

1 metric ton = 1,000 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Tonne; Wikipedia: Ton; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)

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