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  2. Metrication in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Municipal volumetric water measurements, including city water flow and cost per unit on a residential water bill, can either be measured in gallons, cubic feet, or cubic meters, with gallons being the most commonly used. Water bottles for personal use can have their capacity measured in fluid ounces or liters. For ounces, the measurements are ...

  3. Cubic centimetre - Wikipedia

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    A cubic centimetre (or cubic centimeter in US English) (SI unit symbol: cm3; non-SI abbreviations: cc and ccm) is a commonly used unit of volume that corresponds to the volume of a cube that measures 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm. One cubic centimetre corresponds to a volume of one millilitre.

  4. Conversion of units - Wikipedia

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    Conversion of units is the conversion of the unit of measurement in which a quantity is expressed, typically through a multiplicative conversion factor that changes the unit without changing the quantity. This is also often loosely taken to include replacement of a quantity with a corresponding quantity that describes the same physical property ...

  5. Volume - Wikipedia

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    The conversion between the prefix units are as follows: 1000 mm 3 = 1 cm 3, 1000 cm 3 = 1 dm 3, and 1000 dm 3 = 1 m 3. [1] The metric system also includes the litre (L) as a unit of volume, where 1 L = 1 dm 3 = 1000 cm 3 = 0.001 m 3. [18]: 145 For the litre unit, the commonly used prefixes are the millilitre (mL), centilitre (cL), and the litre ...

  6. Refill (scheme) - Wikipedia

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    Refill (scheme) Refill is a global campaign that connects people to places they can eat, drink and shop with less plastic. [1] Using a free location based app, Refill provides a network of points offering the public free tap water in the UK. [2] The network comprises high street retailers, cafes, restaurants, other businesses, museums, and ...

  7. Litre - Wikipedia

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    The litre (Commonwealth spelling) or liter (American spelling) (SI symbols L and l, [1] other symbol used: ) 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). A cubic decimetre (or litre) occupies a volume of 10 cm × 10 cm × 10 cm (see figure) and is thus equal ...

  8. Orders of magnitude (volume) - Wikipedia

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    The most common volume for wine and liquor bottles, also the size of an Australian long neck of beer; sometimes called a 'fifth' in the United States for its approximation to the once-common one-fifth-gallon bottle 9.46 × 10 −4: One US liquid quart: 1 × 10 −3: One cubic decimetre or one litre: 1.000 028 × 10 −3

  9. Scientists Urgently Warn: Stop Drinking Bottled Water - AOL

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    1. It's Typically Worse Than Tap Water. Bottled water, believe it or not, isn't held to the same standards as tap water. That means harmful chemicals can leach from the bottle, especially if it ...