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      Title: # 1 ~ Measurement Equivalents- Metric~ American~ British
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      Yield: 1 Servings
 
      1    Info
 
  From: Sallie Austin, INTERCOOK echo
  
  AMERICAN LIQUID MEASUREMENTS CONVERTED TO METRIC:
  
  American:       Liquid Grams:   Other American Abbreviations: teaspoon 5 t.
  t    tsp    tspn tablespoon 15 T. T Tbsp Tbspn cup 227 c. c C C. pint 454
  pt.   pt quart 907 qt. qt gallon 3628 gal. gal
  
  Note: British liquid ounce is 1.04 times the American ounce; the British
  pint contains 20 British ounces; and the British quart, 40 ounces. A gill
  is 5 ounces, or about 2/3 of an American cup. The pint (liquid) weighs a
  pound everywhere except in England where a pint weighs a pound and a
  quarter. British dry measures for ounces and pounds, and linear measures
  for inches and feet, are the same as American measures.
  
  CONVERSION FORMULAS- American, British, Metric:
  
  To Convert:                     Multiply:               By: Ounces to grams
  the ounces              28.35 Grams to ounces the grams 0.035 Liters to
  American quarts       the liters              0.95 Liters to British quarts
  the liters              0.88 American quarts to liters the quarts 1.057
  British quarts to liters        the quarts
  :           1.14 Inches to centimeters           the inches
  :           2.54 Centimeters to inches the centimeters         0.39
  
  CUP-DECILITER EQUIVALENTS: 1 declilter equals 6 2/3 tablespoons
  
  Cups:   Deciliters:             Cups:   Deciliters:
  :   1/4     0.56                    1 1/4   2.83
  :   1/3     0.75                    1 1/3   3.0
  :   1/2     1/13                    1 1/2   3.4
  :   2/3     1.5                     1 2/3   3.75
  :   3/4     1.68                    1 3/4   4.0
  :   1       2.27                    2       4.5 From: Dale Shipp Date: 26
  Nov 96
 
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