How would you determine the volume of a liquid?

Answer 1

First, safety considerations. Is the liquid volatile meaning it evaporates really easily, non-volatile, hazardous to skin contact, eye contact, etc, or just plain water? This means you should use the appropiate protective equipment.

Now, if you are measuring just water or a benign aqueous solution or liquid, all you have to do is pour the liquid into a measuring container large enough to accommodate the liquid you are measuring. The measuring container can be anything with preset, labelled markings on them like a measuring cup, graduated cylinder indicating standard values-i.e. was measured from an accepted standard measure. That measurement can be in liters or milliliters, or in pints and gallons, or it can be in cubic centimeters. Of course, there are a lot more units of volume measurements depending on the SYSTEM you are using.

Once you place the liquid in a measured container, read off the top of the liquid that coincides with the nearest markings or divisions of the volume labelled amounts. This can be in 0.5 divisions or smaller/greater. For instance, if the top of the liquid is between 100 milliliters and 110 milliliters, and there are no more divisions between these values, then you can estimate that the volume is about 105 milliliters. Or, if the level of the liquid is between 1/2 and 3/4 cup, then you can estimate the value or amount as 2/3 cup.

This should give you a very good estimate of determining volume for MOST liquids. Adjustments are made in reading "problematic" liquids which rise or drop in level at the edge or boundaries of the container.

Answer 2

You can determine the volume of a liquid by pouring the liquid into a graduated cyclinder and reading what the measurement is.

Answer 3

you put liquid into a solid container of which you can measure volume from. or in case of chemistry you put them into a graduated cylinder or beaker and it will tell you what the volume is.

Answer 4

you put what in a beaker were you can acurately tell the measurements, you then measure the amount of water in the beaker and that is the volume...........i think...lol