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What's the tax on a centilitre of alcohol?
It is sold in bottles of 33 centilitre.
Volume The litre, decilitre, centilitre, millilitre, microlitre, and smaller are common.
Prefixes corresponding to powers of one thousand are usually preferred, however, units such as the hectopascal, hectare, decibel, centimetre, and centilitre, are commonly used.
Gulden Draak is packaged in a white bottle in volumes of 33, 75, and 150 centilitre, and in kegs of 30 litres.
However, some authorities advise against some of them; for example, in the United States, NIST advocates using the millilitre or litre instead of the centilitre.
Until 1987, 70 centiliter bottles were used, rather than the 75 cl bottles used since.
To remember also it is easier since the prefixes are all similar and taken from the Latin language: meter, decimeter, centimeter, millimeter, kilometer; and so on: liter, deciliter, centiliter, milliliter, kiloliter... Maybe it is not "wrong" to use other kind of fractions but it breaks the logic behind the decimal system.
