Tuns to Milliliters (tun to mL)

1 tun equals 953,923.7696 milliliters (rounded).

1 tun = 953,923.7696 milliliters

How to convert tuns to milliliters

To convert tuns to milliliters, multiply the number of tuns by 953,923.7696. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply milliliters by 0.000001048301795 (rounded).

milliliters = tuns × 953,923.7696

Example: 10 tuns = 9,539,237.696 milliliters.

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

Tun (tun)

US customaryHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

252 US gallons (954 L), four hogsheads or two pipes.. A very large wine cask, related to the word 'ton'.

From Old English tunne and Medieval Latin tunna, the tun gave English both a cask and, through its close cousin ton, a way of rating ships by how many tuns of wine they could carry. The spellings were once used interchangeably, and a full tun of wine weighs about one long ton of 2,240 pounds.

Its size drifted. The tun began at 256 wine gallons and was cut to 252 before the fifteenth century, a number divisible by seven and many smaller integers. A customs paper of 1507 gives 240 gallons. The Queen Anne gallon of 231 cubic inches, adopted in 1706, made a tun roughly a cylinder 42 inches across and high, and the 1824 imperial system redefined it as 210 imperial gallons.

The US figure of 252 gallons is about 953.9 litres (953.92 L as used here), while the imperial tun is only about 0.08 percent larger. It tops the English wine ladder: two butts, three puncheons, four hogsheads or six tierces, with the same arithmetic working in either gallon.

1 tun = 953.9237696 liters (approximately).

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

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

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