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A cubic metre of pure water at the temperature of maximum density (3.983 °C) and standard atmospheric pressure (101.325 kPa) has a mass of 1000 kg, or one tonne, which makes its maximum density at 101.325 kPa 1 Mg/m3. At 0 °C, the freezing point of water, a cubic metre of water has slightly less mass, 999.85 kilograms.
The "cubic metre" symbol is encoded by Unicode at code point U+33A5 ㎥ SQUARE M CUBED.
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Multiples and submultiples
Multiples
- Cubic decametre
- the volume of a cube of side length one decametre (10 m)
- equal to a megalitre
- 1 dam3 = 1000 m3 = 1 ML
- Cubic hectometre
- the volume of a cube of side length one hectometre (100 m)
- equal to a gigalitre
- in civil engineering abbreviated MCM for million cubic metres
- 1 hm3 = 1000000 m3 = 1 GL
- Cubic kilometre
- the volume of a cube of side length one kilometre (1000 m)
- equal to a teralitre
- 1 km3 = 1000000000 m3 = 1 TL (810713.19 acre-feet; 0.239913 cubic miles)
Submultiples
- Cubic decimetre
- the volume of a cube of side length one decimetre (0.1 m)
- equal to a litre
- 1 dm3 = 0.001 m3 = 1 L
- (also known as DCM (=Deci Cubic Meter) in Rubber compound processing)
- Cubic centimetre
- the volume of a cube of side length one centimetre (0.01 m)
- equal to a millilitre
- 1 cm3 = 0.000001 m3 = 10−6 m3 = 1 mL
- Cubic millimetre
- the volume of a cube of side length one millimetre (0.001 m)
- equal to a microlitre
- 1 mm3 = 0.000000001 m3 = 10−9 m3 = 1 μL
More in Basics and measurement
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