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Fluid ounces vs liters converter
It's confusing in US to know what is an oz and what is an fl oz. The first one (oz) is telling you how big your steak is! The second one (floz) is telling you how much beer there is in your bottle! US is using ounces instead of grams and liquid ounces instead of milliliters! Easy and clear... if you are born in US :]
THE HISTORY OF THE FLUID OUNCES
The word ounce has been abbreviated as oz hundreds of years. It’s coming from 15th or 16th century. The abbreviation comes from a Latin ‘uncial’ and Italia oncia! In Italy the shortening word was ‘onza’, meaning “ounce.”
The fluid ounce, a unit of volume, historically stemmed from the volume occupied by an ounce of a specific fluid, like wine or water. Over time, both the UK and US standardized the fluid ounce as a volume measurement, but with different reference liquids (water for UK, wine for US), leading to slightly different sizes.
THE HISTORY OF THE LITRE
The liter is coming from France. It was introduced in 1795 as one of the new "republican units of measurement." One litre of liquid water has a mass of one kilogram.
In 1901, the liter was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at 4 °C (39.2 °F) and standard atmospheric pressure.
In 1964, at the 12th General Conference on Weights and Measures, it was decided to return to the original definition of the litre. A liter is now a special name for a cubic decimeter, that is, it is exactly 1 dm3.
