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    How many kilograms are in 1,200 liters?

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    How many kilograms are in 1,200 liters?

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    It depends on the density of the substance:
    from 612 kg (LPG) to 2,400 kg (sand)

    The question does not name a substance, and there is no single number for it: a liter fixes the volume, the weight comes from the density. For instance, 1,200 liters of water is 1,198 kg, while 1,200 liters of gasoline is 888 kg. The table below covers every substance.

    Why a liter has no single weight

    A liter measures volume, a kilogram measures mass, and density is what ties them together: how many kilograms one liter of this particular substance comes to. The coincidence that makes people treat them as one thing is historical — in 1795 the gram was defined as the mass of one cubic centimeter of water, so a liter of water weighed a kilogram by construction. For anything else the equality breaks.

    The extremes of this page make it obvious: one liter of LPG weighs 0.51 kg, while one liter of densely packed sand weighs 2 kg — four times more at the very same volume.

    The other way round: how much room a kilogram takes

    This page starts from a volume and answers in kilograms. The opposite question — how many liters a given mass comes to — is what the kilograms to liters calculator is for. Both read the same density table, so the two pages agree wherever the answer is volume times density.

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    How much 1,200 liters of each substance weighs

    SubstanceMassDensity, kg/L
    Beer1,212 kg1.01
    Cement1,500–1,680 kg1.25–1.4
    Coal785–1,519 kg0.654–1.266
    Cucumbers744–768 kg0.62–0.64
    Diesel1,001 kg0.834
    Gasoline888 kg0.74
    Honey1,704 kg1.42
    Juice1,272 kg1.06
    LPG612 kg0.51
    Milk1,236 kg1.03
    Mineral spirits936 kg0.78
    Motor oil1,020 kg0.85
    Sand1,980–2,400 kg1.65–2
    Soil1,560–1,800 kg1.3–1.5
    Sugar864–1,080 kg0.72–0.9
    Tomatoes660–720 kg0.55–0.6
    Vegetable oil1,104 kg0.92
    Wall primer1,200 kg1
    Water1,198 kg0.998

    About "Liters to Kilograms" Calculator

    This calculator converts liters to kilograms through the density of the substance: mass equals volume times density. A liter on its own has no weight — a liter of water weighs almost exactly a kilogram, a liter of honey close to one and a half, and a liter of gasoline about three quarters. For example, it can help you find out how many kilograms are in 1,200 liters? For bulk materials — cement, sand, soil, coal, vegetables — density depends on how the material is packed, so the page prints a range and names the state it was measured in, instead of passing one number off as a physical constant.
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    FAQ

    How many kilograms are in 1,200 liters?

    It depends on the density of the substance: from 612 kg (LPG) to 2,400 kg (sand)

    Why does 1,200 liters not have one weight?

    Because a liter measures volume and a kilogram measures mass, and what connects them is the density of the substance. The volume stays the same while the weight does not: across the table below it runs from 612 to 2,400 kg. That is why this page answers with a table, and gives a single number only once the substance is named.

    How much does 1,200 liters of water weigh?

    Water is the closest thing to the everyday rule that a liter equals a kilogram: 1,200 liters of water weighs 1,198 kg. The density of water at 20 °C is 0.998 kg/L, two thousandths short of one kilogram per liter. It is an example, not the answer to the question in the title — every other substance gives a different number, and those are in the table.

    What is the heaviest and the lightest at this volume?

    The lightest is LPG at 612 kg, the heaviest is sand at 2,400 kg. For bulk materials the upper figure assumes dense packing: sand gains about a fifth, soil about a seventh and cement about an eighth depending on whether it was settled or poured loose.

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