Units of Volume Based on the Litre

When using units based on the litre to measure volumes,
the main units that you are likely to come across and use are:

millilitre
10-3 l
microlitre
10-6 l
nanolitre
10-9 l

Note: The prefixes used for litre based units are
the same as those used for SI Units.
Thus a microlitre is 10-6 the size of a litre.




millilitre

There are a thousand millilitres in 1 litre.

1 millilitre is the same as
1 centimetre cubed.

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microlitre

There are one million microlitres in 1 litre

And

There are one thousand microlitres in 1 millilitre.

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nanolitre

You are not likely to use this unit very often.

There are a thousand nanolitres in 1 microlitre.

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