Convert gallon (US) to quart (US)

What is a gallon?

A gallon is a necessary measure utilized mainly in the USA, UK, and nations that have yet to embrace the metric method.

Historically, the gll was presented in the UK and has been employed from the 13th century. It was split into four quarts and eight pints. Subsequently, various interpretations of the gallons were formed in the USA, with contents liquid and dry, resulting in slight essential discrepancies.

Gal is widely operated in the USA today, particularly in the car industry agribusiness. Nevertheless, the world has changed to the metric method, where volume is calculated in liters, facilitating worldwide uniformity and employment.

What is a quart?

A quart belongs to the traditional units that are still common in different English-speaking countries for measuring both liquids and solids.

In general, it is equal to 2 pints or a quarter of a gallon:

1 qt = 2 pints = ¼ gallon

Historically, a gallon was the first option that appeared and it meant 8 pounds of wheat. Then, a pint was introduced into practice as a 1/8 part of the gallon and later a quart was derived from it.

However, products other than wheat were also measured that led to the diversity of meanings for all these options. Modern quart has three basic options:

• 1 US dry quart equals 1.1012209 liters;
• 1 US quart for liquids corresponds to 0.9463 liters;
• 1 English imperial quart is the same as 1.1365 liters.

Thus, when one encounters volume or mass in quarts, it is worth checking which one was mentioned.