Litre

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A litre is the metric unit o vollum.

Ae litre is the vollum o ae cubic decimetre, that is a cube o 10 × 10 × 10 centimetre. A litre o watter wyes gey naur ae kilogram.

The cutty mak o litre is L or l. The muckle-letter form "L" is preferred bi some fowk sith the smaa "l" can leuk lik the nummer ane, "1".

For smawer vollums the millilitre is uised: 1000 mL = 1 L

  • 1 litre = 0.2200 imperial gallon
  • 1 litre = 0.2642 US gallon
  • 1 imperial gallon = 4.5461 litre
  • 1 US gallon = 3.7854 litre