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Approx. value of 1 litre in non-metric units Non-metric unit Equivalent in litres ≈ 35.19507973: imperial fluid ounces: 1 imperial fluid ounce: ≡ 28.4130625 mL ≈ 33.8140227: US fluid ounces: 1 US fluid ounce: ≡ 29.5735295625 mL ≈ 7.03901595: imperial gills: 1 imperial gill: ≡ 142.0653125 mL ≈ 8.45350568: US gills: 1 US gill: ≡ ...
As an imperial fluid ounce is 96.076% of a US fluid ounce, this means that one imperial gallon, quart, pint, cup and gill are all equal to 1.20095 of their US counterparts. Historically, a common bottle size for liquor in the US was the " fifth ", i.e. one-fifth of a US gallon (or 0.08% more than a "reputed quart", one-sixth of an imperial gallon).
Volume may be measured either in terms of units of cubic length or with specific volume units. The units of cubic length (the cubic inch, cubic foot, cubic mile, etc.) are the same in the imperial and US customary systems, but they differ in their specific units of volume (the bushel, gallon, fluid ounce, etc.).
On 7 April 1795, the metric system was formally defined in French law using six units. Three of these are related to volume: the stère (1 m 3) for volume of firewood; the litre (1 dm 3) for volumes of liquid; and the gramme, for mass—defined as the mass of one cubic centimetre of water at the temperature of melting ice. [10]
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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 , 1 ⁄ 128 of a US gallon , or exactly 29.5735295625 mL, making it about 4.084% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.
Filtered milk and UHT milk sold in the UK is commonly sold in multiples of 1 litre bottles or containers. [ 21 ] Recipes published in the UK and Ireland would have given ingredient quantities in imperial, where the pint is used as a unit for larger liquid quantities, as well as the metric measure - though recipes written now are more likely to ...
A US fluid ounce is 1 / 16 of a US pint (about 1·04 UK fluid ounces or 29.6 mL); a UK fluid ounce is 1 / 20 of a UK pint (about 0·96 US fluid ounce or 28.4 mL). On a larger scale, perhaps for institutional cookery, a UK gallon is 8 UK pints (160 UK fluid ounces; about 1·2 US gallons or 4.546 litres), whereas the US gallon is ...