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A
cubic centimetre or cubic centimeter (symbol
cm³—the abbreviation
cc, though widely used, is deprecated) is a commonly used unit of
volume extending the derived
SI-unit
cubic metre and corresponds to the volume of a cube measuring 1 cm × 1 cm × 1 cm. One cubic centimetre corresponds to a volume of of a cubic metre, or of a
litre; therefore, 1 cm
3 ≡ 1
mL. In many
scientific fields, the use of cubic centimetres has been replaced by the
millilitre. The
medical and
automotive fields are two of the few fields wherein the term cubic centimetre was never discontinued in the United States. In the United Kingdom millilitres are used in preference to cubic centimetres in the medical field, but not the automotive. Most other English-speaking countries follow the UK example, but the use of cubic centmetres persists everywhere. There is currently a movement within the medical field to discontinue the use of "cc" in prescriptions and on medical documents as it can be mis-read as "00" if poor handwriting is used, which can result in a massive, even lethal, overdose of medication.
The mass of one cubic centimetre of
water at 3.98 °C (the temperature at which it attains its maximal density) is equal to 1
gram.
The symbol
cc is still most commonly used in medicine to describe the volumes of doses and in descriptions of the
size of internal combustion engines where it describes the total volume of the piston displacement.
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