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==Winchester quart== |
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'''hi ppl that come to wikipedia a quart is two milk cartons small sized rite?????--[[Special:Contributions/218.186.13.2|218.186.13.2]] ([[User talk:218.186.13.2|talk]]) 13:06, 20 November 2008 (UTC)<br /><math>Insert formula here</math> |
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A Winchester quart is an [[Winchester measure|archaic measure]],<ref>[http://www.hants.gov.uk/regulatory/tradingstandards/wmhistory.html Trading Standards - Weights and Measures of the City of Winchester<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> roughly equal to 2 Imperial quarts or 2.25 litres. The 2.5 litre bottles, in which laboratory chemicals are supplied, are sometimes referred to as [[Winchester (bottle)|Winchester quart bottles]] although they contain slightly more than a traditional Winchester quart. |
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==Notes and references== |
==Notes and references== |
Revision as of 13:06, 20 November 2008
Look up quart in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The quart[1] is an imperial and US customary unit of volume equal to a quarter of a gallon. Since gallons of various sizes have historically been in use, quarts of various sizes have also existed. Three of these quarts remain in current use, all approximately equal to one litre.
hi ppl that come to wikipedia a quart is two milk cartons small sized rite?????--218.186.13.2 (talk) 13:06, 20 November 2008 (UTC)