US Dry Pints to Milliliters (dry pt to mL)
1 US dry pint equals 550.6104714 milliliters (rounded).
How to convert US dry pints to milliliters
To convert US dry pints to milliliters, multiply the number of US dry pints by 550.6104714. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply milliliters by 0.001816165969 (rounded).
milliliters = US dry pints × 550.6104714
Example: 10 US dry pints = 5,506.104714 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
US Dry Pint (dry pt)
One 64th of a US bushel (0.5506 L), larger than the liquid pint. Used for cherry tomatoes and berries.
Pint comes from Old French pinte, possibly traced to a word meaning painted, which would point to marks painted inside a container to show its capacity. In the British North American colonies two separate gallon systems ran side by side, one derived from the 231 cubic inch wine gallon for liquids and one from the corn gallon, an eighth of the Winchester bushel, for grain and produce.
The US dry pint belongs to the second system. It is one 64th of the US bushel, which is fixed at 2,150.42 cubic inches, so a dry pint is about 33.6 cubic inches, or roughly 550.6 millilitres (0.5506 L as used here). It is also half a dry quart and a sixteenth of a peck. Because the liquid pint is only about 473 millilitres, the dry pint is some 16 percent larger.
Today the unit survives mainly on packaging. Blueberries and similar small fruit in the United States and Canada are sold in containers labelled 1 US dry pint, with a bilingual label giving 551 millilitres. Britain dropped both older gallons in 1824, so the imperial pint is a different, larger measure again.
1 US dry pint = 0.5506104714 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Pint; Wikipedia: Bushel
Milliliter (mL)
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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