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So you may ask "what's with a capital letter
L
for liter?
Is that a capital
L
for the
unit of measure named
after a person like C for Celsius? No....
You see, when decimal dimensions were described
long before the typewriter we would have to
write the
script .
But as technology came along it became
apparent
that typewriters were not equipped with 
so attempts were made to use
the lower case "l" (el).
Then it became further confusing to write "1l" (lower case
"el")
as the "1" and "l" (el)
looked too similar as did the capital "I" (eye).
So the capital L
was chosen as the symbol for
the derived base unit liter.
That is the only exception in this.
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Measure Volume of gasoline or the Volume
of most any
refreshing beverage. |
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Volume is the
amount of space
in a contained
substance like
water in a
swimming pool measured in liters.
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DID
YOU
KNOW
THAT?
you can divide
1 meter
by exactly
10 equal parts
(10 cm each side)
then make
a cube
(1000 cm³) of it
to fill
with
water
and you will find
that it contains
exactly
1 L (1 litre)
(1000 mL)
of water
and
is the mass
of exactly
1
kg (1 kilogram)
(1000 g).
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