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liter
also spelled litre
PAGE 14
The International System of Units
is called "SI" (spoken "ess i")

 

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 LENGTH
meter

VOLUME
liter

MASS
kilogram

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liter is the derived unit for VOLUME
Use the symbol
L
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.

Measure Volume of gasoline or the Volume
of most any
refreshing beverage.

Volume is the
amount of space
in a contained substance
like
water in a
swimming pool measured in liters.

 

Which has more...
750 mL (milliliters)
or
1 L (liter)?
You are Absolutely right to say
1 Liter because
there exactly
1000 mL
in 1 L
Liters per 100 kilometers
is simply written
L/100 km
Economy on
the road means
LESS FUEL IS BETTER!
 A quick to determine Fuel Consumption
Make a note of how many liters it takes to fill up each time... note distance traveled... and find how many liters
it takes to travel 100 kilometers (km)


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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 cmณ) 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).