Vedros to Milliliters (vedro to mL)

1 vedro equals 12,299.41 milliliters exactly.

1 vedro = 12,299.41 milliliters

How to convert vedros to milliliters

To convert vedros to milliliters, multiply the number of vedros by 12,299.41. This factor is exact. To go the other way, multiply milliliters by 0.00008130471299 (rounded).

milliliters = vedros × 12,299.41

Example: 10 vedros = 122,994.1 milliliters.

Pints, quarts, gallons and fluid ounces differ between the US and the UK. Units are labeled 'US' or 'imperial' to avoid confusion.

Approximate value. Standards for the vedro varied by place and period, so this converter uses the most commonly cited value. Treat results as estimates, not exact figures.

About these units

Vedro (vedro)

Russian (Imperial)Historical unit (no longer in standard use)Approximate value

The Russian 'bucket', about 12.3 L (ten shtofs). The standard Russian liquid measure until metrication.

Vedro means bucket in Russian, and the unit was the main liquid measure of the Russian Empire, used for wine, vodka and other drinks. Wholesale spirits were counted in vedros and in the bochka, a barrel of 40 vedros holding about 492 L.

Peter the Great did not scrap the old Russian units but redefined them against English ones. The liquid vedro was fixed at exactly 750 cubic inches, which gives 12.29941 L, or about 2.7 imperial gallons. A separate dry vedro of 800 cubic inches, about 13.12 L, was used for grain, so the word has two values depending on the goods.

Smaller liquid units were fractions of it: a bottle of vodka was one twentieth, a kruzhka one tenth, a charka one hundredth, and the standard shtof one tenth in the 19th century. Metric units became optional in Russia in 1900, compulsory in the Russian SFSR in 1918, and the Soviet Union dropped the old measures officially in 1925.

1 vedro = 12.29941 liters (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Vedro; Wikipedia: Obsolete Russian units of measurement

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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