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n.

A commercial weight varying in different countries and for different commodities. In Borneo it is 135 5/8 lbs.; in China and Sumatra, 133 1/2 lbs.; in Japan, 133 1/3 lbs.; but sometimes 130 lbs., etc. Called also, by the Chinese, tan .


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