These amounts aggregate seven tons of organic matter, or the equivalent of seventeen tons of manure, measured by the nitrogen content, or of twenty-four tons, measured by the content of organic matter.
Four tons of bombs were dropped on a large German aerodrome midway between Tournai and Mons, and on billets in the neighborhood of Douai.
Twenty-five thousand rounds were fired by them, and twenty-four tons of bombs were dropped on important centers of the battle front.
Four tons of bombs were dropped on the large railway sidings at Courtrai, the railway junction midway between Douai and Valenciennes, two German aerodromes north of Douai, and billets.
In addition, four tons of bombs were dropped on Valenciennes railway station, through which the German troop trains were passing on their way to the front.
A pint of water, therefore, and two ounces of common coal, are thus rendered capable of doing as much work as is equivalent to seventy-four tons raised a foot high.
This double journey of one hundred and ninety miles is effected by the mechanical force produced in the combustion of four tons of coke, the value of which is about five pounds.
The proportion of the power to the [Pg481] tonnage varied from one horse to three tons to one horse to four tons.
Of four tons of such manure, three tons are water.
Now to prepare the vessel for a submerged run, we admit, say, one hundred and twenty-four tons of water; the positive buoyancy is then reduced to one ton.
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