Metric System Volume
1 milliliter 0 001 liter.
Metric system volume. It is equal to 1 000 liters. The unit is written m 3 cubic meters. 1 l 1000 ml. 1 l is the volume of a carton of orange juice.
So there are 10 millimetres mm in a centimetre cm. The standard unit of volume in the metric system is the liter. 1 kg 1000 g. Being a decimalised system it is based on the power of 10 and parts of ten.
100 centimetres in a metre m and 1 000 metres in a kilometre km. 1 kg is the weight of seven apples. This can be contrasted with the relative complexity of the imperial system which was based on irregular bases eg 12 pence in a shilling 20 shillings in a pound 240 pence. The basic unit of volume is a cube that is 1 meter on each side.
12 inches in a foot ft three feet in a yard yd and 1 760 yards yds in a mile. 1 centiliter 0 01 liter. Volume is measured in millilitres ml and litres l. To measure smaller or larger quantities we use units derived from the metric units.
1 deciliter 0 1 liter.