millilitres

Coming from a country that uses litres and millilitres, European centilitre paper cups just look plain weird.

In true British fashion the requirements for draught beer and cider are in pints, while wine is sold in millilitres.

This is 1/8 of a British pint or 71 millilitres, and the rum would have been a minimum of 54%!

Side note that in Europe drinking products are often labelled in centilitres whereas Australians use millilitres.

For example when measuring a liquid for a science experiment are measurements made in millilitres?

If you just use grams and millilitres you don’t need one.

> For the statistically inclined, the figure to watch is the number of colony-forming units (of bacteria) per hundred millilitres.

A lot of native-metric-english speakers try, they say 'mil' for millilitres, they say 'kays' for kilometres, but you're still left with either awkward decimal points or excessive syllables.

Wine is sold in millilitres, as are spirits.

I find measuring with grams and millilitres much easier.

And the pure irony that „Because actual drinking cups may differ greatly from the size of this unit, standard measuring cups may be used, with a metric cup being 250 millilitres.

I'm really not concerned about the risks involved with using a couple of millilitres of the stuff to remove some flux residue - I'd be more concerned about exposure to the flux.

Many drinks (like refrigerated shakes etc.) have nutritional information per 100 millilitres, whereas the actual bottle is say 330 millilitres, and the "serving size" will be defined as 250 millilters.

I'm tired of all the American recipes with quantities like "2 1/3 cups"; the proliferation of units and fractions makes work needlessly hard compared to just grams and millilitres.

According to Wikipedia "An imperial fluid ounce is defined in British law as exactly 28.4130625 millilitres, while a US customary fluid ounce is exactly 29.5735295625 mL, and a US food labelling fluid ounce is 30 mL."

In fact, even in that article "Mosquitoes consume up to 300 millilitres of blood a day from each animal in a caribou herd, which are thought to select paths facing into the wind to escape the swarm.