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Cubic foot

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The cubic foot is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, and partially in Canada, and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot (0.3048 m) in length. Its volume is 28.3168 liters or about  1⁄35 of a cubic meter.

Contents

A cubic foot of water weighs 62 pounds (28 kg).

Symbols

There are no universally agreed abbreviations, but the following are used:

  • cubic feet, cubic foot, cubic ft, cu ft, cuft, cu.ft, cb ft, cbft, cb.ft, cbf, cu feet, cu foot, ft3, feet3, foot3, feet/-3, foot/-3, ft/-3  ft
  • CCF for 100 cubic feet (C denotes centum, hundred. Also HCF where H stands for hundred. Used in the billing of natural gas and water delivered to households.)
  • MCF for 1000 cubic feet (M denotes mil, thousand)
  • MMCF for 1000000 cubic feet (28000 m3)
  • MMCFD for millions of cubic feet per day.
  • BCF for a billion cubic feet
  • TCF for a trillion cubic feet.
  • TMC for thousand million cubic feet (usually used for referring to storage capacity and actual storage volume of storage dams)

    • Cubic foot per second

    There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used.

  • ft3/s
  • cu ft/s
  • cfs
  • ft^3/sec
  • ft3/sec
  • cusec
  • ft^3/s

    • Cubic foot per minute

    There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used.

  • ft3/min
  • CFPM
  • CFM

    • Standard cubic foot

    A standard cubic foot (abbreviated scf) is a measure of quantity of gas, sometimes but not always defined in terms of standard temperature and pressure as a cubic foot of volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit (15.56 °C; 288.71 K) and 14.7 pounds per square inch (PSI) (1.01 bar; 101.35 kPa) of pressure.

    References

    Cubic foot Wikipedia
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