Imperial fluid ounce (fl oz)
Definition: An imperial fluid ounce is one 160th of an imperial gallon, equal to about 28.4131 milliliters.
History/origin: It developed as the small-volume subdivision of the imperial gallon and remained distinct from the US fluid ounce.
Current use: Imperial fluid ounces appear mostly in legacy UK packaging, recipes, and older measurement references.
Cubic kilometer (km³)
Definition: The cubic kilometer is a huge metric volume unit. A 1 km by 1 km by 1 km cube contains 1,000,000,000 m³, or 1,000,000,000,000 L.
History/origin: Earth science needed a readable unit for massive natural volumes, so km³ became useful for water bodies, ice, rock, magma, and atmosphere-scale quantities.
Current use: Km³ appears in hydrology, climate reports, ocean volume estimates, glacier studies, volcanic eruption data, reservoir capacity, and large-scale geography.