Milliliters to Butts (pipe) (mL to butt)

1 milliliter equals 0.00000209660359 butts (pipe) (rounded).

1 milliliter = 0.00000209660359 butts (pipe)

How to convert milliliters to butts (pipe)

To convert milliliters to butts (pipe), multiply the number of milliliters by 0.00000209660359. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply butts (pipe) by 476,961.8848 (rounded).

butts (pipe) = milliliters × 0.00000209660359

Example: 10 milliliters = 0.0000209660359 butts (pipe).

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

Milliliter (mL)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a liter, or exactly 1 cubic centimeter. Used for medicine, cooking and small containers.

Milliliters inherit everything from the liter, since the prefix simply means one thousandth. Because the liter is a cubic decimeter, a milliliter works out to exactly one cubic centimeter, a coincidence the metric system built in on purpose so that volume, length and mass interlock. One milliliter of water has a mass of about one gram, so a dosing syringe, a kitchen scale and a measuring jug can all be checked against one another.

Today milliliters dominate wherever small amounts must be measured precisely: medicine, flavorings, perfume, shampoo and the fine print on drink labels. Spelling is a mild regional split, with uppercase mL preferred in the United States, Canada and Australia and lowercase ml common in the UK and Europe. For scale, a US teaspoon is just under 5 mL, a US tablespoon is about 14.8 mL, and the US nutrition-label cup is exactly 240 mL, so one such cup is 240 of these tiny units.

1 milliliter = 0.001 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures

Butt (pipe) (butt)

US customaryHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

126 US gallons (477 L), also called a pipe: half a tun.

Butt is an obsolete English liquid measure equal to two hogsheads, and for wine it is also called a pipe. At 126 US wine gallons, or 105 imperial gallons, it holds about 477 litres (476.96 L as used here). It is half a tun, so two butts fill the largest standard cask.

The size was never fully fixed. Depending on the definition a butt ranged from about 450 to 1,060 litres, and an ale butt of roughly 108 imperial gallons (about 491 litres) differed from the wine butt. The Oxford English Dictionary is cited as warning that these standards were not always followed precisely.

The informal word buttload, meaning a large quantity, is one proposed descendant of the measure. A 1695 gauging manual by James Lightbody lists beer and ale vessels by name and content.

1 butt (pipe) = 476.9618848 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Butt (unit); Wikipedia: Tun (unit)

Related conversions

See all volume units.