What is a liquid ounce?
fluid is a measurement of volume , with 16 liquid ounces equal to one pint. Liquid ounce is measured in standardized, predefined containers. Liquid ounces of water will take the same amount of space as liquid of sugar. A dry ounce is a measurement of weight , with 16 dry ounces equal to one pound. The dry ounce of sugar weighs just like dry ounces of water, but it takes a different volume of space.
The terms fluid and dry are misleading because they may accidentally cause people to assume that fluid ounce is for measuring liquids and dry ounces are for measuring solids. Dry ounces of fluid are used to measure the liquid to measure dry goods and dry ounces are used.
Consider the well -known kitchen measuring cup defined in liquid ounces. Home recipes require a certain volume volume sugar, cream, oil, water or flour. The weight of each of these ingredients is irrelevant and fortunately. It is very time -consuming toTo consider the recipe every component!
Some goods are not suitable for measuring a liquid ounce and instead measured by weight with dry ounces. For example, meat is sold by weight. However, any two slices of beef, which are once a pound, can contain different amounts of bones, grristle or fat. This caused slim cuts, which are therefore more expensive, because there is more meat for a pound.
items like breakfast cereals and fries are sold by weight, so each box or bag has the same amount of food. The content usually settles in transport and when opening such an item, it may appear as if a box or bag was short. For this reason, manufacturers have added a printed statement for many of these products informing about consumers that the item is sold by weight and not volume - another way to say that it is sold by dry units of the ounce fluid verses.
Speaking of dry or liquid ounces, most people simply say "ounce". Type of measurement - weight or volume - is usually clear from context. We buy a pound of sugar, we understand that it will be 16 [dry] ounces by weight. However, they require eight ounces of sugar in the production of cookies and the recipe, not adding half a pound! Instead, sugar goes to the measuring cup for eight [liquid] ounces or one cup.
One ounce fluid in the US is equal to 1.04 liquid ounce in the UK and troy ounce, used to measure precious metals such as gold, platinum and silver, is 480 grains or 31.10 grams. This is several grams more than a standard American dry ounce, which is 28.35 grams.