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Label: ton of oil equivalent

Definition:

A ton of oil equivalent is an energy unit which is equal to the amount of energy released by burning one metric ton of crude oil with a certain net calorific value. That is defined as 41.868 gigajoules or 11.63 megawatt-hours.

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Definition:

"A unit which is a standard measure of the work done by a certain force (gravitational, electric, magnetic, force of inertia, etc)." [NIST:NIST]