How many kilograms are in 200 liters of vegetable oil?
How many kilograms are in 200 liters of vegetable oil?
Answer
The density of vegetable oil is 0.92 kg/L (at 15.6–20 °C; peanut 0.914, olive 0.918, corn 0.922, soybean 0.927). The source gives a band of 0.914–0.927 kg/L.
How the mass of 200 liters of vegetable oil was worked out
0.92 kg/L × 200 L
=184 kg
The density comes from FAO/INFOODS Density Database v2.0. At 15.6–20 °C; peanut 0.914, olive 0.918, corn 0.922, soybean 0.927.
Why a liter and a kilogram are not the same thing
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.
If the substance is not known in advance, start from how many kilograms are in 200 liters — the same volume across every substance at once.
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.
For vegetable oil that means 200 liters weighs 184 kg here, and one kilogram of it takes 1.09 liters there.
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How much 200 liters of each substance weighs
| Substance | Mass | Density, kg/L |
|---|---|---|
| Beer | 202 kg | 1.01 |
| Cement | 250–280 kg | 1.25–1.4 |
| Coal | 130.8–253.2 kg | 0.654–1.266 |
| Cucumbers | 124–128 kg | 0.62–0.64 |
| Diesel | 166.8 kg | 0.834 |
| Gasoline | 148 kg | 0.74 |
| Honey | 284 kg | 1.42 |
| Juice | 212 kg | 1.06 |
| LPG | 102 kg | 0.51 |
| Milk | 206 kg | 1.03 |
| Mineral spirits | 156 kg | 0.78 |
| Motor oil | 170 kg | 0.85 |
| Sand | 330–400 kg | 1.65–2 |
| Soil | 260–300 kg | 1.3–1.5 |
| Sugar | 144–180 kg | 0.72–0.9 |
| Tomatoes | 110–120 kg | 0.55–0.6 |
| Vegetable oil | 184 kg | 0.92 |
| Wall primer | 200 kg | 1 |
| Water | 199.6 kg | 0.998 |