US Cups to Cords (cup to cord)
1 US cup equals 0.00006527370877 cords (rounded).
How to convert US cups to cords
To convert US cups to cords, multiply the number of US cups by 0.00006527370877. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply cords by 15,320.1039 (rounded).
cords = US cups × 0.00006527370877
Example: 10 US cups = 0.0006527370877 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
US Cup (cup)
One sixteenth of a US gallon, 236.588 mL (8 US fluid ounces). The standard US recipe cup.
Cups began as household drinking vessels, not scientific units, which is why they remain the messiest measures in the kitchen. The US customary cup was defined by slicing up the gallon: half a pint, or eight US fluid ounces, about 236.6 milliliters. Unlike the larger units, nobody ever fixed it to a physical vessel, so it exists only as a fraction of the gallon.
The customary cup is not the only American cup. For nutrition labels, US regulation defines a cup as exactly 240 milliliters, a rounder figure that sits slightly above the customary size. Packaged foods therefore list a serving in the legal cup while a measuring cup from the hardware store follows the customary definition. The gap is 3.4 milliliters, which hardly matters for soup but can matter in baking. Cup measures also hide the weight of dry ingredients, since a cup of sifted flour and a cup of packed flour differ substantially, which is why much of the world prefers grams.
1 US cup = 0.2365882365 liters (exactly).
Sources: Wikipedia: Cup (unit); NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures
Cord (cord)
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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- US cups to metric cups
- US cups to metric tablespoons
- Liters to cords
- Milliliters to cords
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