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A gallon is a unit of measurement used to describe how much liquid or gas something can hold, and it's commonly used in the United States and Britain. It matters because it's the standard way people in these countries measure things like gasoline, milk, and water in everyday life.
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Key facts
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- gallon
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- GasCan.jpg
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- A 1-US-gallon gasoline can showing "U.S. Gallon" marking (for American use), imperial gallons (for some Caribbean countries' and territories' use), and litres (for Canadian use)
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- Volume
- Unit.symbol
- gal
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- Non-SI units accepted for use with SI
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- US customary units
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- ≈
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- US customary units
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- ≈
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- Non-SI units
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- Imperial units