UK litres and US litres help
by karlos74 on 12/05/03 at 10:40:56

I hope someone can help me with my problem.
I  have a fish tank which has 60(uk)litres and i need to put some medicine in the tank but the bottle of medicine is an american company and is talking in US litres and gallons could some one tell me what the diffrence is between UK litres and gallons and US litres and gallons,is there much of a diffrence ?
Thanks an advance

Re: UK litres and US litres help
by Robert Fogt on 12/06/03 at 00:32:39

A "liter" is the same in the U.S. as it is in the U.K., it is an internationally standardized volume.

So if the medicine lists directions in liters just use that.

But if you have to use gallons... The U.K. gallon is slightly larger than the U.S. gallon.

To convert U.K. gallons to U.S. gallons, multiply by 1.2
To convert U.S. gallons to U.K. gallons, divide by 1.2

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