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A cubic foot is an Imperial / U.S. customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the UK. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 foot (0.3048 m) in length.

Symbols

There is no universally agreed symbol but the following are used:
  • cubic feet, cubic foot, cubic ft
  • cu ft, cu feet, cu foot
  • ft³, feet³, foot³
  • feet^3, foot^3, ft^3
  • feet/-3, foot/-3, ft/-3
  • CCF for 100 cubic feet (C denotes centum, hundred)
  • MCF for 1,000 cubic feet (M denotes mil, thousand)
  • TCF for 1 trillion cubic feet. Used in the oil and gas industry. The term trillion in this case refers to 1012, the short scale definition employed by most English speaking countries.

    Conversions

    1 cubic foot is equivalent to:
  • 1728 cubic inches
  • 28.316846592 litres or 0.028316846592 cubic metres
  • ≈ 7.48051948 U.S. liquid gallons (exactly: 576/77 or 7480512/999999)
  • ≈ 957.50649350 U.S. fluid ounces (exactly: 73728/77)
  • ≈ 6.22883546 Imperial gallons or ≈ 996.61367 Imperial fluid ounces
  • ≈ 0.037037 cubic yards (exactly: 1/27)
  • ≈ 0.803563913 U.S. bushels
  • ≈ 0.1781076 oil barrels

    Standard cubic foot

    A standard cubic foot (abbreviated scf) is a measure of quantity of gas, sometimes but not always defined as a cubic foot of volume at 60 degrees Fahrenheit and 14.7 pounds per square inch (PSI) of pressure. See standard temperature and pressure.

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