›› Measurement unit: dekatonne

Full name: dekatonne

Plural form: dekatonnes

Alternate spelling: dekaton

Category type: weight

Scale factor: 10000

›› SI unit: kilogram

The SI base unit for mass is the kilogram. The SI derived unit for weight or force is the newton.
1 kilogram is equal to 0.0001 dekatonne.

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The SI prefix "deka" represents a factor of 10¹, or in exponential notation, 1E1.

So 1 dekatonne = 10¹ tonnes.

The definition of a tonne is as follows:

A tonne (also called metric ton) is a non-SI unit of mass, accepted for use with SI, defined as: 1 tonne = 1000 kg (= 10⁶ g).