What is 550qt in Gills?

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What is 550 Quarts (US Liquid) (550qt) in Gills (gi)?

What is 550qt in gi? Convert 550 Quarts (US Liquid) (550qt) to Gills (gi) and show formula, brief history on the units and quick maths for the conversion.

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Quick Reference for Converting Quarts (US Liquid) to Gills

Formula
gi = qt x 6.66
Quick Rough Maths
To get the Gills, multiply the number of Quarts (US Liquid) by 6.7
Quarts (US Liquid) (qt) in 1 Gill
There are 0.15 Quarts (US Liquid) in 1 Gill
Gills (gi) in 1 Quart (US Liquid)
There are 6.66 Gills in 1 Quart (US Liquid)

Unit Information

Quart (US Liquid)
/kwɔːt/
Symbol: qt
Unit System: US Customary

What is the Quart (US Liquid)?

The US liquid quart is a unit of volume in the US customary system with the symbol qt.

The US liquid quart is equal to 1/4 US liquid gallons, 2 US liquid pints, 4 US liquid cups, 8 US liquid gills or 32 US fluid ounces. The SI / metric equivalent is ≈ 0.946353 L.

The US liquid quart was based on exactly 57.75 in³ which was derived from the 1959 international yard and pound agreement whereby all traditional length and volume measures were legally standardised.

Gill
/dʒɪl/
Symbol: gi
Unit System: Imperial

What is the Gill?

The gill is a unit of volume in the imperial unit system and uses the symbol gi.

It represents 1/4 of a pint - so in this instance, it is 1/4 of an imperial pint - therefore measures exactly 142.0653125 ml. It's also equal to 2 imperial cups and 1/32 of an imperial gallon.

It is pronounced with a "J" sound at the beginning - and it actually part of a humorous in the nursery rhyme 'Jack & Jill'.

In the UK it was used throughout pubs as standard measures; for example spirits were served as 1/6 gill as standard. In Scotland it was 1/5 gill and in Ireland 1/4 gill. It's still used in the Republic of Ireland today.


Conversion Tables for Quarts (US Liquid) (qt) to Gills (gi)