Question

What is the volume of a solid measured in?

Answer 1

`"Cubic metres, litres, cubic centimetres, millilitres."`

Explanation:

A `"cubic metre"` is an impossibly large volume, and is equivalent to `1000*L`. A litre or a millilitre (`10^-3*L`) are the units most practising chemists would use. Sometimes you see `1*dm^3`, `-=` `1*L`.

And `1*dm^3` `=` `(10^-1*m)^3` `=` `10^-3*m^3` `=` `1/1000*m^3` `=` `1*L` as required.

And `1*cm^3` `=` `(10^-2*m)^3` `=` `10^-6*m^3` `=` `1/1000000*m^3` `=` `1*mL` as required.

Of course we could go back to pints, and fluid ounces, and gallons, and bushels, and pecks, but you might not get many too many willing to support you.