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US liquid pint and Imperial gallon belong to measurement conventions that may look familiar but are not always equivalent across countries. Mendeleev.com therefore keeps the system name next to the abbreviation and calculates from defined conversion factors rather than rounded kitchen rules.
Exemplo
1 US pt = 0.104084273079 imp gal · 10 US pt = 1.04084273079 imp gal.
0.104084273079 imp gal