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The reputed quart was a measure equal to two-thirds of an imperial quart (one-sixth of an imperial gallon), or exactly 0.757681 6 liters, which is only 0.08% larger than one US fifth (exactly 0.7570823568 liters). The reputed quart was previously recognized as a standard size of wine bottle in the United Kingdom, and is only about 1% larger ...
quart (US dry) qt (US) ≡ 1 ⁄ 32 bu (US lvl) = 1 ⁄ 4 gal (US dry) = 1.101 220 942 715 × 10 −3 m 3: quart (US fluid) qt (US) ≡ 1 ⁄ 4 gal (US fl) = 946.352 946 × 10 −6 m 3: quarter; pail: ≡ 8 bu (imp) = 0.290 949 76 m 3: register ton: ≡ 100 cu ft = 2.831 684 6592 m 3: sack (US) ≡ 3 bu (US lvl) = 0.105 717 210 500 64 m 3: seam ...
One litre is about 5.6% larger than a US liquid quart, and about 12% smaller than an imperial quart. A mnemonic for its volume relative to an imperial pint is "a litre of water's a pint and three-quarters"; this is very close, as a litre is exactly 1 345391 ⁄ 454609 imperial pints.
A US liquid gallon contains about 3.7854 kilograms (8.3454 lb) of water at 3.98 °C (39.16 °F), and is about five-sixths of an imperial gallon. There are four quarts in a gallon, two pints in a quart and 16 US fluid ounces in a US pint, which makes the US fluid ounce equal to 1 / 128 of a US gallon.
Britain's North American colonies adopted the British wine gallon, defined in 1707 as exactly 231 cubic inches (3 in × 7 in × 11 in) as their basic liquid measure, from which the US wet pint is derived, and the British corn gallon (1 ⁄ 8 of a standard "Winchester" bushel of corn, or exactly 268.8025 cubic inches) as its dry measure, from ...
For example, L/km can be defined as "liters per kilometer" by entering ==L/km as the symbol for the unit. A single " = " is used with an alias to specify that a unit code is an alternative name for another unit.
The former Weights and Measures office in Seven Sisters, London (590 Seven Sisters Road). The imperial system of units, imperial system or imperial units (also known as British Imperial [1] or Exchequer Standards of 1826) is the system of units first defined in the British Weights and Measures Act 1824 and continued to be developed through a series of Weights and Measures Acts and amendments.
The Richter scale [1] (/ ˈ r ɪ k t ər /), also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, [2] is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale". [3]