In everyday life, people very often encounter volume measures. In milliliters or liters, as a rule, most of what we meet every day is expressed: the amount of coffee in a glass, milk in one bottle or the liquid ingredient needed to prepare a dish. However, such units as a centimeter or cubic meter are also quite popular, so sometimes it is necessary to transfer values from one measurement system to another. Let's see how to perform such operations.
What is a milliliter?
There are many units of volume measurement: a gallon, a barrel, a pint, but the liter is the most common. Today, one liter is equal to one cubic decimeter or 0.001 cubic meters. It is interesting that before that it was defined as one kilogram of distilled water at normal pressure, however, this system was subsequently abandoned, since different liquids at different pressures have different masses and, accordingly, different volumes.
A milliliter is a fractional unit of a liter. One liter contains 1000 milliliters. One milliliter is equal to 0.001 liters.
Cubic centimeter
Despite the fact that in everyday life we are accustomed to using a liter and its fractional quantities, the official unit of measurement of volume adopted in the international system (SI) is a meter or centimeter cubic.
One cubic centimeter is 10 -6 or 0.000001 cubic meters.
Translation of quantities
Sometimes we have to convert milliliters to cubic centimeters, which can cause some difficulties. In order to facilitate this task, you can use the table.
How, on the contrary, to convert cubic centimeters to milliliters, another table will tell.
Using these tables, you can easily convert milliliters to cubic centimeters and vice versa, you just need to select a couple of quantities, find their ratio and multiply by a given amount.
For example, you want to convert 200 milliliters to cubic centimeters. According to the table, 1 milliliter is 1 cubic centimeter.
200 ml x 1 cm 3 = 200 cm 3
Answer: 200 cm 3
Thus, the ability to transfer volumes from one unit of measurement to another is an important skill, which, however, will not be difficult to master. One has only to remember the ratio of fractional units or to have reference material at hand.