US Dry Barrels to Liters (bbl (dry) to L)

1 US dry barrel equals 115.6271236 liters (rounded).

1 US dry barrel = 115.6271236 liters

How to convert US dry barrels to liters

To convert US dry barrels to liters, multiply the number of US dry barrels by 115.6271236. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply liters by 0.008648489809 (rounded).

liters = US dry barrels × 115.6271236

Example: 10 US dry barrels = 1,156.271236 liters.

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 Dry Barrel (bbl (dry))

US customaryTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

Exactly 7,056 cubic inches (115.628 L). The US standard barrel for dry goods such as fruit and vegetables.

A barrel for dry goods is the only cask in this family defined by a clean cubic measure rather than by gallons. The US standard is 7,056 cubic inches, which converts to about 115.6 litres (115.63 L as used here) and equals roughly 3.3 US bushels. Unlike the many English cask names built on the wine gallon, this barrel descends from the corn measure used for grain, fruit and root crops.

The word barrel entered English in the Middle Ages from French baril, a term whose own origin is unknown. In American commerce the dry version served for flour, cornmeal, sugar, lime, cement, salt and produce such as apples, though cornmeal, for instance, is reckoned by weight at 200 pounds per barrel.

The fixed cubic-inch definition keeps the unit stable, and it is regularly confused with the liquid barrel of 31.5 gallons, which is a little larger at about 119 litres. Modern trade has largely replaced both with sacks, cartons and metric weights, though the dry barrel remains defined in US customary tables.

1 US dry barrel = 115.6271236 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Barrel (unit); Wikipedia: Bushel

Liter (L)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One cubic decimeter (1,000 cm³). The everyday metric unit of volume for drinks, fuel and cooking.

The liter was born in revolutionary France. In 1795 it was introduced as a republican unit and defined as one cubic decimeter, while the gram was tied to a cubic centimeter of water. The name comes from the older French litron, itself descended from a Byzantine Greek unit of weight, not volume. A small revision of the decimeter in 1798 left the first liter about 1.000974 of today's cubic decimeter, and in 1879 the international metric authorities adopted the liter with the symbol l.

The liter then took a strange detour. In 1901 it was redefined as the space taken up by one kilogram of pure water at its densest, which made it about 1.000028 cubic decimeters, and that muddled definition lasted until 1964, when it was restored to exactly one cubic decimeter. A capital L was added as an alternative symbol in 1979 because a lowercase l is easy to mistake for the digit 1, and NIST says L is the symbol to use in the United States. A liter of water is close to a kilogram, which is why a one-liter bottle feels like a kilo in the hand.

The liter is the reference unit for volume on this site.

Sources: Wikipedia: Litre; NIST Guide to the SI, Chapter 5: units outside the SI

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