US Minims to Liters (min to L)

1 US minim equals 0.00006161151992 liters (rounded).

1 US minim = 0.00006161151992 liters

How to convert US minims to liters

To convert US minims to liters, multiply the number of US minims by 0.00006161151992. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply liters by 16,230.7309 (rounded).

liters = US minims × 0.00006161151992

Example: 10 US minims = 0.0006161151992 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 Minim (min)

US customaryHistorical unit (no longer in standard use)

One sixtieth of a fluid dram (about 0.0616 mL), roughly one drop.

A drop is a poor unit of volume, because its size shifts with the liquid's thickness and density. The Royal College of Physicians of London tried to fix that in the 1809 edition of its pharmacopoeia, which introduced the minim as a replacement for the drop. The US minim is 1/60 of a fluid dram and 1/480 of a fluid ounce, exactly 61.611519921875 microlitres, or about 0.0616 mL.

Measuring so little needed special glassware. The minim-tube was a graduated pipette, an idea traced to a design of 1791 by the French chemist François-Antoine-Henri Descroizilles, and a minimometer was another name for such a graduated tube. The British imperial minim is slightly smaller, about 0.0592 mL, and the UK Weights and Measures Act 1963 provided for its abolition, which took effect on 1 February 1971. Today dosing is metric, and a drop-sized quantity is usually stated in microlitres or tenths of a millilitre.

1 US minim = 0.00006161151992 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Minim (unit); Wikipedia: Fluid dram

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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