Milliliters to Hogsheads (ale) (mL to hhd (ale))

1 milliliter equals 0.000004073504598 hogsheads (ale) (rounded).

1 milliliter = 0.000004073504598 hogsheads (ale)

How to convert milliliters to hogsheads (ale)

To convert milliliters to hogsheads (ale), multiply the number of milliliters by 0.000004073504598. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply hogsheads (ale) by 245,488.86.

hogsheads (ale) = milliliters × 0.000004073504598

Example: 10 milliliters = 0.00004073504598 hogsheads (ale).

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

Hogshead (ale) (hhd (ale))

Imperial (British)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)

54 imperial gallons (245.5 L), one and a half UK beer barrels.

Philologists such as Walter William Skeat traced hogshead to Germanic words for a cask, for example Dutch oxhooft and Danish oxehoved, meaning ox head; the older English form was probably oxhead. Parliament first tried to standardise the cask in an act of 1423, but sizes still varied by place and by what was inside.

For ale, Wikipedia gives two figures. Under the pre-1824 beer gallon the ale hogshead is listed as 45 imperial gallons, while its chart for the 1824 system gives 54 imperial gallons, 245.5 liters, one and a half barrels. The latter is the figure used here. Other goods differed: wine hogsheads settled at 52.5 imperial gallons (238.7 L), and in 1897 Whitaker's Almanack listed 46 gallons for claret, 57 for port and 54 for sherry. Colonial sugar and tobacco hogsheads were measured by weight instead. The ale hogshead has long fallen out of use.

1 hogshead (ale) = 245.48886 liters (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Hogshead; Wikipedia: Kilderkin; Wikipedia: Barrel (unit)

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