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1.89 L: 64 US fl oz: 1 ⁄ 2 US gallon. Darwin stubby: 2.273 L: 80 imp fl oz: Standard Australian bottle size, equal to half of an Imperial gallon. Later rounded off to 2.25 L (79.18 imp fl oz) after metrication. It's rounded down further to 2 L (70.39 imp fl oz) in states with strict drinking laws. bucket (UK) 18.18 L: 4 imp gal: Obsolete ...
2.272 L: 2 quarts or 1 ⁄ 2 gallon Gallon: 4.544 L: 8 pints Liquid measures as binary submultiples of their respective gallons (ale or wine): ...
The ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (≈ 4.622 L). The corn or dry gallon is used (along with the dry quart and pint) in the United States for grain and other dry commodities. It is one-eighth of the (Winchester) bushel, originally defined as a cylindrical measure of 18 + 1 / 2 inches in diameter and 8 inches in depth, which made the ...
The litre (Commonwealth spelling) or liter (American spelling) (SI symbols L and l, [1] other symbol used: ℓ) is a metric unit of volume. It is equal to 1 cubic decimetre (dm 3 ), 1000 cubic centimetres (cm 3 ) or 0.001 cubic metres (m 3 ).
The reputed quart was a measure equal to two-thirds of an imperial quart (or one-sixth of an imperial gallon), at about 0.7577 liters, which is very close to one US fifth (0.757 liters). The reputed quart was previously recognized as a standard size of wine bottle in the United Kingdom, and is only about 1% larger than the current standard wine ...
PepsiCo introduced the first two-liter sized soft drink bottle in 1970. [1] Motivated by market research conducted by new marketing vice president John Sculley (who would later be known for heading Apple Inc. from 1983 to 1993), [2] the bottle and the method of its production were designed by a team led by Nathaniel Wyeth of DuPont, who received the patent in 1973. [3]
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Both the 42-US-gallon (159 L) barrels (based on the old English wine measure), the tierce (159 litres) and the 40-US-gallon (150 L) whiskey barrels were used. Also, 45-US-gallon (170 L) barrels were in common use. The 40 gallon whiskey barrel was the most common size used by early oil producers, since they were readily available at the time.