Metric volume

[H5N1]

A metric liter is equal to approximately 1.056 liquid quarts
but only 0.908 dry quart.
Why is it not the same, liquid or dry?

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Here's the link.

http://www.simetric.co.uk/si_nop.htm

[oneighty]

2. curious

On your two quart milk container or in my case on my empty two quart orange juice container it says; 1/2 GAL (1.89 L). That would be .945 L=1QT. No?

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[indy_azcat]

3. they were defined differently

U.S. wet pints are 1/8th of U.K. wine gallons (231 cc), but U.S. dry pints (1 pint=268.8 cc) are based on the U.K. grain gallon (a.k.a. corn gallon or half-a-peck), which is bigger.

http://nist.gov/