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2. Gallon - Wikipedia

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   The wine, fluid, or liquid gallon is the standard US gallon. The wine gallon, which some sources relate to the volume occupied by eight medieval merchant pounds of wine, was at one time defined as the volume of a cylinder 6 inches deep and 7 inches in diameter, i.e. 6 in × (⁠3 + 1 / 2 ⁠ in) 2 × π ≈ 230.90706 cubic inches.

3. Wine gallon - Wikipedia

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   A wine gallon is a unit of capacity that was used routinely in England as far back as the 14th century, and by statute under Queen Anne since 1707. [1] [2] Britain abolished the wine gallon in 1826 when it adopted imperial units for measurement, with the 1707 wine gallon being the basis of the United States' gallon, as well as other measures.

4. Litre - Wikipedia

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   One litre of water has a mass of almost exactly one kilogram when measured at its maximal density, which occurs at about 4 °C. It follows, therefore, that 1000th of a litre, known as one millilitre (1 mL), of water has a mass of about 1 g; 1000 litres of water has a mass of about 1000 kg (1 tonne or megagram). This relationship holds because ...

5. Wine bottle - Wikipedia

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   Many traditional wine bottle sizes are named for Biblical kings and historical figures. [5] The chart below [6] lists the sizes of various wine bottles in multiples relating to a standard bottle of wine, which is 0.75 litres (0.20 US gal; 0.16 imp gal) (six 125 mL servings).

6. English wine cask units - Wikipedia

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   The tun (Old English: tunne, Latin: tunellus, Middle Latin: tunna) is an English unit of liquid volume (not weight), used for measuring wine, oil or honey.It is typically a large vat or vessel, most often holding 252 wine gallons, but occasionally other sizes (e.g. 256, 240 and 208 gallons) were also used.

7. Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement ...

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   Wine was measured with units based on the wine gallon of 231 cubic inches (3.785 L), beer was measured with units based on an ale gallon of 282 cubic inches (4.621 L) and grain was measured with the Winchester measure with a gallon of approximately 268.8 cubic inches (one eighth of a Winchester bushel or 4.405 L). In 1824, these units were ...