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Common Formulas / Conversion Factors
Cooking Measurement Equivalents  / Temperature  / Weight
U.S.
and Metric Equivalents

1 barrel, liquid

31 to 42 gallons2

1 barrel, standard for fruits, vegetables, and other dry commodities except cranberries

7,056 cubic inches
105 dry quarts
3.281 bushels, struck measure

1 barrel, standard, cranberry

5,286 cubic inches
8645/64 dry quarts
2.709 bushels, struck measure

1 bushel (U.S.) struck measure3

2,150.42 cubic inches
35.238 liters

1 bushel, heaped (U.S.)

2,747.715 cubic inches
1.278 bushels, struck measure4

1 cord (firewood)

128 cubic feet

1 cubic centimeter

0.061 cubic inch

1 cubic decimeter

61.024 cubic inches

1 cubic foot

7.481 gallons
28.316 cubic decimeters

1 cubic inch

0.554 fluid ounce
4.433 fluid drams
16.387 cubic centimeters

1 cubic meter

1.308 cubic yards

1 cubic yard

0.765 cubic meter

1 cup, measuring

8 fluid ounces
1/2 liquid pint

1 dram, fluid or liquid (U.S.)

1/8 fluid ounces
0.226 cubic inch
3.697 milliliters
1.041 British fluid drachms

1 dekaliter

2.642 gallons
1.135 pecks

1 gallon (U.S.)

231 cubic inches
3.785 liters
0.833 British gallon
128 U.S. fluid ounces

1 gallon (British
Imperial)

277.42 cubic inches
1.201 U.S. gallons
4.546 liters
160 British fluid ounces

1 gill

7.219 cubic inches
4 fluid ounces
0.118 liter

1 hectoliter

26.418 gallons
2.838 bushels

1 liter

1.057 liquid quarts
0.908 dry quart
61.024 cubic inches

1 milliliter

0.271 fluid dram
16.231 minims
0.061 cubic inch

1 ounce, fluid or liquid (U.S.)

1.805 cubic inch
29.574 milliliters
1.041 British fluid ounces

1 peck

8.810 liters

1 pint, dry

33.600 cubic inches
0.551 liter

1 pint, liquid

28.875 cubic inches
0.473 liter

1 quart, dry (U.S.)

67.201 cubic inches
1.101 liters
0.969 British quart

1 quart, liquid (U.S.)

57.75 cubic inches
0.946 liter
0.833 British quart

1 quart (British)

69.354 cubic inches
1.032 U.S. dry quarts
1.201 U.S. liquid quarts

1 tablespoon,
measuring

3 teaspoons
4 fluid drams
1/2 fluid ounce

1 teaspoon,
measuring

1/3 tablespoon
11/3 fluid drams

1 assay ton5

29.167 grams

1 carat

200 milligrams
3.086 grains

1 dram, apothecaries'

60 grains
3.888 grams

1 dram, avoirdupois

27 11/32 (=27.344) grains
1.772 grams

1 grain

64.798 91 milligrams

1 gram

15.432 grains
0.035 avoirdupois ounce

1 hundredweight, gross or long6

112 pounds
50.802 kilograms

1 hundredweight, net or short

100 pounds
45.359 kilograms

1 kilogram

2.205 pounds

1 microgram

0.000 001 gram

1 milligram

0.015 grain

1 ounce, avoirdupois

437.5 grains
0.911 troy or apothecaries' ounce
28.350 grams

1 ounce, troy or apothecaries'

480 grains
1.097 avoirdupois ounces
31.103 grams

1 pennyweight

1.555 grams

1 point

0.01 carat
2 milligrams

1 pound, avoirdupois

7,000 grains
1.215 troy or apothecaries' pounds
453.592 37 grams

1 pound, troy or apothecaries'

5,760 grains
0.823 avoirdupois pound
373.242 grams

1 ton, gross or long6

2,240 pounds
1.12 net tons
1.016 metric tons

1 ton, metric

2,204.623 pounds
0.984 gross ton
1.102 net tons

1 ton, net or short

2,000 pounds
0.893 gross ton
0.907 metric ton

 

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