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US Equivalent [1] English French fluid dry bushel: boisseau: 8 gal 36.36872 L 9.608 US fl gal 8.256 US dry gal peck: quart de boisseau: 2 gal 9.09218 L 2.402 US fl gal 2.064 US dry gal gallon: gallon: 454,609 ⁄ 100,000,000 m 3: 4.54609 L 1.201 US fl gal 1.032 US dry gal quart: pinte: 1 ⁄ 4 gal 1.1365225 L 1.201 US qt pint: chopine: 1 ⁄ 8 ...
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 ...
The US liquid gallon (frequently called simply "gallon") is legally defined as 231 cubic inches, which is exactly 3.785411784 litres. [7] [8] A US liquid gallon can contain about 3.785 kilograms or 8.34 pounds of water at 3.98 °C (39.16 °F), and is about 16.7% less than the imperial gallon. There are four quarts in a gallon, two pints in a ...
The imperial gallon was originally defined as 10 pounds (4.5359 kg) of water in 1824, and refined as exactly 4.54609 litres in 1985. Traditionally, when describing volumes, recipes commonly give measurements in the following units:
When dealing with the US oat markets though, special attention must be paid to the definition of bushel weight because the US uses a Winchester bushel (35.239 litres). [29] In livestock auction markets, cattle are sold in dollars per short hundredweight (cwt; 100 lbs; 45.36 kg), whereas hogs are sold in dollars per hundred kilograms.
The US fluid ounce is based on the US gallon, which in turn is based on the wine gallon of 231 cubic inches that was used in the United Kingdom prior to 1824. With the adoption of the international inch , the US fluid ounce became 1 ⁄ 128 gal × 231 in 3 /gal × (2.54 cm/in) 3 = 29.5735295625 mL exactly, or about 4% larger than the imperial unit.
“Of the 6.6 million gallons per day, (Hyundai) is estimated to need 4 million gallons per day once we reach full production – 300,000 cars annually,” company spokeswoman Bianca Johnson said ...
= 36.368 72 litres: ≈ 8.25645 US dry gallons ≈ 9.60760 US fluid gallons ≈ 2 219.36 cubic inches: ≈ 1.284 35 cubic feet 1 US bushel [6] = 8 US dry gallons = 4 US pecks = 2 150.42 cubic inches = 1.244 46 cubic feet = 35.239 070 166 88 litres ≈ 9.3092 US fluid gallons ≈ 7.7515 imperial gallons