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In US customary units, three units of volume exist both in a dry and a liquid version, with the same name but different values: the dry barrel, the dry quart, and the dry pint. The bushel is only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods, and have a different value from both the dry and liquid US ...
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.).
The Israelite system of powder/liquid volume measurements corresponds exactly with the Babylonian system. Unlike the Egyptian system, which has units for multiples of 1, 10, 20, 40, 80, and 160 of the base unit, the Babylonian system is founded on multiples of 6 and 10, namely units of 1, 12, 24, 60, 72 (60 plus 12), 120, and 720. [ 1 ]
The cubic inch, cubic foot and cubic yard are commonly used for measuring volume. In addition, there is one group of units for measuring volumes of liquids (based on the wine gallon and subdivisions of the fluid ounce), and one for measuring volumes of dry material, each with their own names and sub-units.
7 Volume (dry or liquid) 8 Other. 9 See also. ... This is a list of obsolete units of measurement, ... equivalent to 11.5 kilograms [6]
The Spanish bushel was used as a measure of dry capacity. It is roughly equal to 55.5 litres in Castille. The Welsh hobbit was equivalent to two-and-a-half bushels when used for volume; when used for measuring weight the hobbit was dependent on the grain being weighed.
The US Customary system of units makes use of set of dry units of capacity that have a similar set of names [Note 7] to those of liquid capacity, though different volumes: the dry pint having a volume of 33.6 cubic inches (550 ml) against the US fluid pint's volume of 28.875 cubic inches (473 ml) and the imperial pint of 34.68 cubic inches (568 ...
1 US dry quart ≡ 1 / 32 US bushel: ≡ 2: US dry pints ≡ 1.101 220 942 715: liters [7] [8] ≡ 67.200 625: cubic inches ≡ 107521 / 369600 US gallons ≡ 1 15121 / 92400 US liquid quarts ≡ 2 15121 / 46200 US liquid pints ≡ 9 3571 / 11550 US gills ≡ 37 1367 / 5775 US fluid ounces ≈ 0. ...