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Question "t" sound bewteen sound of "n" and "s/sh".

I love a lot of things about different accent & this is my favourite.
In some British English accent, some speakers tend to add the sound of "t" in between the sound of "s/sh" and "n".
Few examples:
Finance: faI.n@nts
Chance: chA:nts
Pension: pent.S(sh)@n
Tense: tents
Sense: sents
and so on.
I wonder why this is not the case with the word "tension" though, as it can be seen here http://dictionary.cambridge.org/defi...ey=81956&ph=on
Does the sound of "t" REALLY miss from between "n" and "s" sound in the word "tension" OR is it merely the case of this dictionary simply missing the mention of "t" sound.
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