Liters to Cords (L to cord)

1 liter equals 0.0002758958338 cords (rounded).

1 liter = 0.0002758958338 cords

How to convert liters to cords

To convert liters to cords, multiply the number of liters by 0.0002758958338. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply cords by 3,624.556364 (rounded).

cords = liters × 0.0002758958338

Example: 10 liters = 0.002758958338 cords.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

About these units

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

Cord (cord)

US customaryTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

A stack of firewood 4 ft × 4 ft × 8 ft: 128 cubic feet (3.62 m³).

Firewood and pulpwood in the United States and Canada are sold by the cord, a name thought to come from the string once used to check the size of a pile. A full cord is a neat stack 4 feet high, 4 feet deep and 8 feet long, or 128 cubic feet, about 3.62 cubic meters. Because the figure counts the gaps between logs, a cord holds noticeably less solid wood than its volume suggests.

Sellers often offer a face cord instead, a stack 4 by 8 feet in face area but only as deep as the log length, commonly 16 inches, which makes it about a third of a cord. Names such as rick and face cord vary from place to place, and Measurement Canada recognizes the cord, the stere and the cubic foot as legal sale measures.

Older European cords varied widely. Before 1795 the French corde ranged from roughly 2 to 5 steres by region, and the stere, a cubic meter of stacked wood, was coined that year to replace it. One stere is about 0.276 cord.

1 cord = 3,624.556364 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Cord (unit); Wikipedia: Stere

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