Methuselahs to US Gallons (methuselah to gal)

1 methuselah equals 1.585032314 US gallons (rounded).

1 methuselah = 1.585032314 US gallons

How to convert methuselahs to US gallons

To convert methuselahs to US gallons, multiply the number of methuselahs by 1.585032314. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US gallons by 0.630901964.

US gallons = methuselahs × 1.585032314

Example: 10 methuselahs = 15.85032314 US gallons.

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

Methuselah (methuselah)

Cooking & barCurrent unit

6 liters, eight standard bottles.

Methuselah, the oldest man in the Bible and grandfather of Noah, lends his name to a bottle of 6 liters, equal to eight standard 750 mL bottles. Wikipedia's table lists it as Imperial or Methuselah, since the same size is also called an imperial, and notes that bottle names of this kind are not applied consistently everywhere.

The naming pattern is a trade tradition rather than a rule of law. Most of the large Champagne formats borrow names of biblical kings and figures: Jeroboam, Rehoboam, Salmanazar, Balthazar and Nebuchadnezzar. The same article says the sizes section needs better sources, and in places the origins are unclear, so claims about who first used them should be treated cautiously. In practice a Methuselah is rare outside special occasions. A magnum is 1.5 L and a Methuselah four times that, about 202.9 US fluid ounces.

1 methuselah = 6 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Wine bottle

US Gallon (gal)

US customaryCurrent unit

Exactly 231 cubic inches or 3.785411784 liters (128 US fluid ounces). About 17% smaller than the imperial gallon.

The US gallon is a survivor of English wine trade. Around 1706, a statute in Queen Anne's reign fixed the wine gallon at exactly 231 cubic inches, settling confusion among the competing gallons for wine, ale and corn. British colonies in North America used that wine gallon, and in 1824 Britain replaced all its gallons with a new imperial one while the United States kept the old measure. It was adopted as the legal US standard in 1836 and is still defined as exactly 231 cubic inches, or 3.785411784 liters.

That makes the US gallon about 17 percent smaller than the imperial gallon, a difference that explains why American and British fuel-economy figures cannot be compared directly. Everyday uses are milk jugs, paint cans and gasoline pumps. One gallon divides evenly into four quarts, eight pints, sixteen cups and 128 fluid ounces. A gallon of water weighs a little over 8 pounds, an easy figure to remember when loading a car with water jugs.

1 US gallon = 3.785411784 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gallon; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume

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