If you like cooking and sometimes buy foreign books, you may have come across a unit of measurement that you don’t understand very well. We mean the ounce. The term ounce comes from the Latin, uncia, which in turn derives from the Proto-Indo-European oinoko, from which the word unique also derives.
The ounce has been used as a measure for many years. In fact, it is a unit of mass used since Ancient Rome that allowed merchants to accurately weigh products, especially when they weighed less than the Roman pound. The Romans used duodecimal fractions to weigh, and the ounce was 1/12 part of the Roman pound. Its use gradually spread throughout Europe, and although it is no longer used in so many places today, it is still the measure used by the Anglo-Saxons.
In fact, nowadays, if you buy kitchen weights, you will see that they have the conversion from grams to ounces so that it is easier for you to know the equivalences between one weight and another.
What ounces are currently used?
English ounces are used today and are divided into two types.
- Avoirdupois ounce, commonly used, which is 1/17th of an avoirdupois pound and equals 28.35 grams.
- Troy ounce, used in jewelry, goldsmithing, and numismatics. It is used, basically, to weigh precious metals and corresponds to 1/12 part of a troy pound, in addition, it is equivalent to 31.10 grams.
- Imperial fluid ounce, which is a volume measurement based on the avoirdupois ounce used to indicate the contents of certain containers and even for the preparation of cocktails. Equals 28.5 milliliters or 0.0285 liters.
The US ounce is equal to the British fluid ounce, but its equivalent in liters or milliliters is different. Thus, the US ounce equals 29.6 milliliters or 0.0296 liters.
In addition to Anglo-Saxons, Americans also use a metric system based on ounces.
The ounce can also be used as units of measurement of volume and capacity, therefore, its equivalence between the weight of an ounce and a liter can also be found, that is, it can be found out how much an ounce is in liters. Be careful, the ounces that measure liquids are fluid ounces.
How to know how much is an ounce in liters?
If you want to know how much an ounce is in liters, it is very simple, you just need to read the following post to find out. Let’s get started!
What do you need:
To know how much an ounce is in liters you will need:
- Read the next post
- Calculator
- Pencil and paper
- Do some very simple math calculations
Instructions
Step by step to know how much is an ounce in liters:
We want to help you to know how to use ounces correctly, therefore, in the step-by-step section, we are going to explain how to convert imperial ounces, like US ones, into liters. We hope you find it very useful and allow you to eliminate the doubts you had about this aspect.
Convert ounces to liters
- Although centiliters, liters or milliliters are normally used as the unit of measurement to measure liquids, it is not surprising to find the use of ounces in certain products, such as milk or even mineral water.
- To convert the ounce into liters, the first thing we need to know is its equivalence in liters. It varies depending on whether we are referring to an Anglo-Saxon ounce or an imperial ounce, or an American ounce.
- To avoid confusion between this type of ounces, we indicate its equivalence in liters. Thus, the Anglo-Saxon ounce is equivalent to 0.0285 liters while the US ounce is equivalent to a total of 0.0296 liters.
- Once we know the equivalence of Anglo-Saxon and American ounces in liters, we only need to multiply the number of ounces we have by their equivalence in liters to know the final result.
- Thus, for example, if we have a carton of milk that contains 35.1951 Anglo-Saxon ounces of milk, its equivalence in liters will be found by multiplying the number of ounces by the value of the Anglo-Saxon liters. That is, 35.1951 x 0.0285= would give a total of 1 liter.
- On the other hand, if what we have in a brick whose volume is calculated at 50 US ounces, we will have a total of 50 x 0.0296= 1.48 liters.
Tips
Curiosities about the ounce:
The symbol for an ounce is oz, and you can find it by referring to the weight of certain foods or to measures related to liquids. For example, it is not surprising that it is used to refer to milk or even water.
You can find it in the instructions or descriptions of some foods, in the section that indicates it in English, or in cookbooks. If you ever decide to move to England, remember that this is the usual way of weighing, so you will have to get used to doing the reverse conversion, that is, converting grams and liters to ounces.