US Minims to Milliliters (min to mL)

1 US minim equals 0.06161151992 milliliters (rounded).

1 US minim = 0.06161151992 milliliters

How to convert US minims to milliliters

To convert US minims to milliliters, multiply the number of US minims by 0.06161151992. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply milliliters by 16.2307309 (rounded).

milliliters = US minims × 0.06161151992

Example: 10 US minims = 0.6161151992 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 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

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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