US Minims to US Fluid Ounces (min to fl oz)
1 US minim equals 0.002083333333 US fluid ounces (rounded).
How to convert US minims to US fluid ounces
To convert US minims to US fluid ounces, multiply the number of US minims by 0.002083333333. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply US fluid ounces by 480.
US fluid ounces = US minims × 0.002083333333
Example: 10 US minims = 0.02083333333 US fluid ounces.
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)
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
US Fluid Ounce (fl oz)
One 128th of a US gallon, 29.5735 mL. Not the same as the weight ounce, and about 4% larger than the imperial fluid ounce.
Fluid ounce began as an attempt to link volume to weight: the volume occupied by one ounce of some substance, such as wine in England or water in Scotland. Definitions varied by region and by liquid. When Britain defined its imperial gallon in 1824 as the space of ten pounds of water, the imperial fluid ounce came out so that an ounce of water weighs about one avoirdupois ounce. The US fluid ounce followed a different path and comes from the older wine gallon.
The US fluid ounce is exactly 1/128 of a US gallon, 29.5735295625 milliliters, about 4 percent bigger than the imperial one at 28.4130625 milliliters. American nutrition labels use yet another figure, treating one fluid ounce as 30 milliliters, a convenient rounding for serving sizes. The name is a trap, because a fluid ounce measures space while a weight ounce measures mass. A US fluid ounce of water weighs a bit more than an ounce of weight, while a fluid ounce of honey weighs considerably more.
1 US fluid ounce = 0.02957352956 liters (approximately).
Sources: Wikipedia: Fluid ounce; NIST SP 811, Appendix B.8: conversion factors for volume; 21 CFR 101.9: nutrition labeling household measures
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