Brewers use decalitres
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someguy3@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
I’ve seen some obscure uses in technical areas, but in general use no they aren’t used. Metric is better skipping all those and using the thousands prefixes. cm is used but mm is much better. Europe uses cl but we in Canada don’t, we use ml.
Jaytreeman@kbin.social 9 months ago
GoosLife@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Europe uses cl, ml and dl. A can of coca Cola is 33 ml, a shot is 2 cl. Then you switch to litres at 0.5l.
We also use decilitre, but only in cooking, and I think most don’t think of it as 0.1 l, but rather just think of it as the size of a measuring cup, i.e. it has more in common with “1 cup of sugar” than with “0.5 liter of water” in terms of how you think about it. More abstract, if that makes sense.
someguy3@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Metric is better by a thousand (double entendre).
vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
A can is 330ml or 33cl.
All labeling is in ml right now. Recipes still often use cl/dl.