Litre
Unit of measure of capacity in the International System of Units (SI).
Notation
- The symbol for litre is “L” which represents “litre.” We use this symbol instead of the lowercase letter l to avoid any possible confusion with the digit 1.
- For the multiples and sub-multiples of a litre, we use the lowercase letter, such as in ml or kl.
Properties
One litre is equivalent to one cubic decimetre and we write: 1 L = 1 dm[latex]{^3}[/latex] .
- One litre is equivalent to 1000 millilitres: 1 L = 1000 ml.
- One kilolitre is equivalent to 1000 litres: 1 kl = 1000 L.
- One hectolitre is equivalent to 100 litres: 1 hl =100 L.
- One decilitre is equivalent to 100 millilitres: 1 dl = 100 ml.
- One centilitre is equivalent to 10 millilitres: 1 cl = 10 ml.