How do you work out cm3 into ml?

[soundbeltfarm]

i changing oil in kids front forks and the oil is measured in cm3 .
how many mls are in 1 cm3?

[soundbeltfarm]

i think i have figured it out.
I must be a dumb arse.
i guessing it is 1cm3 = 1 ml

[Juzz976]

1ml = 1cm³

10cm x 10 cm x 10cm = 1000cm³ = 1L = 1000mL

[notme]

1cc = 1ml.

Think about your bike's engine - you say it's a "litre bike" or "1000cc" interchangeably..... so 1000cc = 1 litre. That means 1/1000th of a litre must be one cc.
Or another way - a cc of water is a cube of water 1cm by 1cm by 1cm. It takes 1000 of these cubes to make a litre of water, so 1cc is one thousandth of a litre, i.e. 1 millilitre. Funnily enough, a cc or ml of water weighs about 1g.

[hayd3n]

they may a be a measurment you can use aswell it might say 50mm from the top without spring etc

[Juzz976]

Thing I don't get is what are you using to measure this quantity that has cm³ as its scale?

Seems a very odd question to me...

[notme]

Thing I don't get is what are you using to measure this quantity that has cm³ as its scale?

Probably a syringe. They are usually marked in cc.

[Latte]

I see cm3 in some non english stuff, guess they don't realise it's convention to call it cc (cubic centimetre).

[steve_t]

I see cm3 in some non english stuff, guess they don't realise it's convention to call it cc (cubic centimetre).

Actually, cm3 is the correct unit, as is mL. "cc" is an abbreviation or slang unit

[Latte]

Actually, cm3 is the correct unit, as is mL. "cc" is an abbreviation or slang unit

Which is why I said convention, and not correct term.......

[steve_t]

Which is why I said convention, and not correct term.......

Yeah, fair enough, though the only place I know it's convention is regarding engine capacity. Totally unfounded, but I'd tend to think 'cc' would have come from Americans and their tendency to do/spell things differently to everyone else

[YellowDog]

Yeah, fair enough, though the only place I know it's convention is regarding engine capacity. Totally unfounded, but I'd tend to think 'cc' would have come from Americans and their tendency to do/spell things differently to everyone else

The annoying tendancy of the Yanks is to measure motorcycle engines in Cibic Inches

[Latte]

Yeah, fair enough, though the only place I know it's convention is regarding engine capacity. Totally unfounded, but I'd tend to think 'cc' would have come from Americans and their tendency to do/spell things differently to everyone else

I'd say you're pretty much spot on there... especially with the automotive slant. I also seem to remember "CC" used a lot in US medical shows - "10cc's of overpricedplacebopam stat!"

[notme]

Wikipedia sez:

In many scientific fields, the use of cubic centimetres has been replaced by the millilitre. The medical and automotive fields are two of the few fields wherein the term cubic centimetre was never discontinued in the United States. Much of the automotive industry outside the U.S. has switched to using litres instead of cubic centimetres. In the United Kingdom, millilitres are used in preference to cubic centimetres in the medical field, but not the automotive. Most other English-speaking countries follow the UK example, but the use of cubic centimetres persists everywhere, especially in the automotive field.
There is currently a movement within the medical field to discontinue the use of cc in prescriptions and on medical documents as it can be mis-read as "00"; this could result in a hundredfold overdose of medication, which may be dangerous or even lethal. In the United States, such confusion accounts for 12.6% of all errors associated with medical abbreviations.^[2]




So basically it's the states lagging behind worldwide standards again....hits the engineering fields all the time!

[BMWST?]

they may a be a measurment you can use aswell it might say 50mm from the top without spring etc

mm vs ml.
Just to confuse things the building industry doesnt work in centimetres its either mm or metres.