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litre (US), liter 1. one cubic decimetre 2. (formerly) the volume occupied by 1 kilogram of pure water at 4?C and 760 millimetres of mercury. This is equivalent to 1.000 028 cubic decimetres or about 1.76 pints How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Take an empty soda can and fill it with roughly 10 milliliters of water. Scientists knew that each milliliter of ocean Water holds about 50 million virus particles and that those organisms kill 20 percent of the bacteria in the ocean every day (SN: 7/12/2003, p. In "The Search for Real Absinthe" (August/September), the thu-jone content of the Pernod Fils absinthe produced circa 1900 should have been reported as six milligrams per liter, not six milligrams per milliliter. Correction by Reason |
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