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.
At 60 °F, a cubic foot of water weighs 62.36630 pounds (28.28888 kg).
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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
- ft3/sec
- cusec
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.
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