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Gallon (US)

Definition: A gallon is a unit used to measure liquid volume under both the US customary and imperial measurement systems. The US gallon equals 231 cubic inches (or 3.785 liters), while the imperial gallon, which is utilized in regions like Canada, the United Kingdom, and a few Caribbean nations, is defined as 4.54609 liters. Typically, the gallon is separated into four quarts, each made up of two pints, which are separated into two cups. A gill is half a cup, with two gills in one cup, and eight fluid ounces in one US cup and ten in an imperial cup.

Origin and History: The "galon" in Old Northern French was the term that was originally referred to as the gallon. It was created to measure wine and beer in England, leading to its varied uses such as the ale gallon, wine gallon, and imperial gallon.

Current Usage: Mostly, larger containers like half-gallon tubs of ice cream, and one-gallon cartons of milk in the United States are measured in gallons. Additionally, gallons are widely used in fuel expressions in the US, as well as some territories. The imperial gallon is almost always replaced by liters in most countries worldwide, especially in measuring fuel.

Liter

Definition: A liter (symbol: L) is a unit of volume that is widely accepted for use under the International System of Units (SI). Strictly speaking, it's not an SI unit, and it can be defined as one cubic decimeter, 1000 cubic centimeters, or one-thousandth of a cubic meter.

Origin and History: From 1901 to 1964, the liter was defined as the volume occupied by one kilogram of pure water at maximum density under average atmospheric pressure. However, as the water's relationship between mass and volume was found to be based on several factors that are challenging to control (purity, pressure, and temperature), and due to the discovery that the prototype of kilogram was slightly too large when compared to the ideal size, the definition of the liter was reverted to its earlier definition.

Current Usage: Liters measure various liquid volumes and are commonly used to classify containers for these liquids. They also serve as a measure of a few non-liquid volumes, such as the size of backpacks, car trunks, climbing packs, computer cases, refrigerators, microwaves, and recycling bins. Besides, most countries around the world use liters to describe fuel volumes and prices.

Conversion

Gallon (US) [gal (US)]|Liter [L, l]

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0.01 gal (US)|0.0378541178 L, l

0.1 gal (US)|0.3785411784 L, l

1 gal (US)|3.785411784 L, l

2 gal (US)|7.570823568 L, l

3 gal (US)|11.356235352 L, l

5 gal (US)|18.92705892 L, l

10 gal (US)|37.85411784 L, l

20 gal (US)|75.70823568 L, l

50 gal (US)|189.2705892 L, l

100 gal (US)|378.5411784 L, l

1000 gal (US)|3785.411784 L, l

1 gal (US) = 3.785411784 L, l, and 1 L, l = 0.2641720524 gal (US).

Sample: Transformation of 15 gallons (US) into liters: Utilize the formula 15 × 3.785411784 L, l to obtain the result of 56.78117676 L, l. Keep in mind that the ,

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