Joe Reid wrote:
> I have not found the resolution of CGPM that puts the kilolitre in the "do
> not use" category.  In France the wholesale wine trade works in
> hectolitres and wine is drunk by the centilitre.

Good point, Joe.

The reference I was using was, in fact the IEEE/ASTM SI 10-1997 document,
rather than the BIPM's SI Brochure.

Page 10 of that document says to use cubic meter (and its symbol) and not to
used kiloliters (kL). I assumed, wrongly, that the admonition was of CGPM
origin.

Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]

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