How many shots in a litre

This article is about a common how many shots in a litre of volume. For the plant commonly known as litre, see Lithraea caustica. Not to be confused with Litter or Litr. The original French metric system used the litre as a base unit.

Subsequent redefinitions of the metre and kilogram mean that this relationship is no longer exact. A litre is equal in volume to the millistere, an obsolete non-SI metric unit formerly customarily used for dry measure. It is now known that the density of water also depends on the isotopic ratios of the oxygen and hydrogen atoms in a particular sample. The litre, though not an official SI unit, may be used with SI prefixes. The most commonly used derived unit is the millilitre, defined as one-thousandth of a litre, and also often referred to by the SI derived unit name “cubic centimetre”.

It is a commonly used measure, especially in medicine, cooking and automotive engineering. Other units may be found in the table below, where the more often used terms are in bold. See also Imperial units and US customary units. One litre is slightly larger than a US liquid quart and slightly less than an imperial quart or one US dry quart.

One cubic foot has an exact volume of 28. A litre of liquid water has a mass almost exactly equal to one kilogram. An early definition of the kilogram was set as the mass of one litre of water. Because volume changes with temperature and pressure, and pressure uses units of mass, the definition of a kilogram was changed. At standard pressure, one litre of water has a mass of 0.

SI convention that only those unit symbols that abbreviate the name of a person start with a capital letter. South African Bureau of Standards publication M33 and Canada in the 1970s. Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris. The litre was introduced in France in 1795 as one of the new “republican units of measurement” and defined as one cubic decimetre. It was against this litre that the kilogram was constructed. In 1964, at the 12th CGPM conference, the original definition was reverted to, and thus the litre was once again defined in exact relation to the metre, as another name for the cubic decimetre, that is, exactly 1 dm3.

It also expressed a preference that in the future only one of these two symbols should be retained, but in 1990 said it was still too early to do so. MKS system, which later evolved into the SI system. In the medical field the microlitre is sometimes abbreviated as mcL on test results. In countries where the metric system was adopted as the official measuring system after the SI standard was established, common usage eschews prefixes that are not powers of 1000. It is also generally for all volumes of a non-liquid nature.

The Metric Conversion Act of 1985 gives the United States Secretary of Commerce the responsibility of interpreting or modifying the SI for use in the United States. Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, 2006, p. Days” and “hours” are examples of other non-SI units that SI accepts. Gramme, le poids absolu d’un volume d’eau pure égal au cube de la centième partie du mètre , et à la température de la glace fondante. English translation: “Gramme: the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to the cube of the hundredth part of the meter, at the temperature of melting ice. Kenneth Butcher, Linda Crown, Elizabeth J. Non-SI units accepted for use with the SI by the CIPM and this Guide”.