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fluid ounces Imperial fluid ounce (fl oz) ≡ 1 imp fl oz. ≈ 0.960 759 940 40 US fl oz ≈ 0.947 102 083 33 US fl oz (food) ≡ 28.413 0625 mL ≡ 0.028 413 0625 L. US fluid ounce (customary) (fl oz) ≈ 1.040 842 730 79 imp fl oz. ≡ 1 US fl oz ≡ 0.985 784 318 75 US fl oz (food) ≡ 29.573 529 5625 mL ≡ 0.029 573 529 5625 L. US fluid ounce
An imperial fluid ounce is 1 ⁄ 20 of an imperial pint, 1 ⁄ 160 of an imperial gallon or exactly 28.4130625 mL. A US customary fluid ounce is 1 ⁄ 16 of a US liquid pint and 1 ⁄ 128 of a US liquid gallon or exactly 29.5735295625 mL, making it about 4.08% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.
American cooks using British recipes, and vice versa, need to be careful with pints and fluid ounces. A US pint is 473 mL, while a UK pint is 568 mL, about 20% larger. A US fluid ounce is 1 ⁄ 16 of a US pint (29.6 mL); a UK fluid ounce is 1 ⁄ 20 UK pint (28.4 mL). This makes an Imperial pint equivalent to 19.2 US fluid ounces.
Soft drink containers of 1 and 0.5 liters (and more recently 1.25 liter bottles) are increasingly sold alongside 12 fl oz, 16 fl oz, 20 fl oz, and 24 fl oz (355, 473, 591 and 710 mL) sizes. The half-liter water bottle (16.9 fl oz) has nearly replaced the 16 ounce size. 700 mL (23.6 fl oz) and one-liter sizes are also common, though 20 fl oz and ...
It was supposed to be replaced by the 500 mL "half-liter", which was dropped in 1989, but is sometimes used for craft beer and malt liquor. Fifth (US) 25.6 US fl oz: 26.66 imp oz. 757 mL: A fifth (1 ⁄ 5, or 0.2) of a US gallon. Called a "Commercial Quart" because it was equivalent to 0.8 US fluid quarts. Replaced by the 750 mL "metric quart".
The US customary system uses the short hundredweight of 100 lb and short ton of 2,000 lb. Where these systems most notably differ is in their units of volume. A US fluid ounce (fl oz), about 29.6 millilitres (ml), is slightly larger than the imperial fluid ounce (about 28.4 ml
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 ).
Consequently, a fluid ounce of water weighs about 1.041 ounces avoirdupois. For nutritional labeling and medicine in the US, the teaspoon and tablespoon are defined as a metric teaspoon and tablespoon—precisely 5 mL and 15 mL respectively. [22] The saying, "a pint's a pound the world around", refers to 16 US fluid ounces of water weighing ...