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also spelled litre |
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also spelled litre |
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Instant Metric eBook ฎฉ HTML format 813 kb Internet Browser Laptop Tablet Handheld Mobile Device eReaders Instant Metric eBook ฎฉ PDF format 1290 kb eReaders Universal liter is the derived unit for VOLUME Use the symbol L So you may ask "what's with a capital letter L for liter? Is that a capital L for the unit of measure named after a person like C for Celsius? No.... You see, when decimal dimensions were described long before the typewriter we would have to write the script  .But as technology came along it became apparent that typewriters were not equipped with so attempts were made to use the lower case "l" (el). Then it became further confusing to write "1l" (lower case "el") as the "1" and "l" (el) looked too similar as did the capital "I" (eye). So the capital L was chosen as the symbol for the derived base unit liter. That is the only exception in this.
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