Grams per cubic centimetre to pounds per cubic foot – and pounds per cubic foot to grams per cubic centimetre
1 g/cm³ = 62.427961 lb/ft³
All units in this category
- 1,000kg/m³
- 1g/cm³
- 1kg/l
- 62.427961lb/ft³
- 8.3454045lb/gal
Formula
Multiply the value in grams per cubic centimetre by 62.427961 to get pounds per cubic foot.lb/ft³ = g/cm³ × 62.427961
Multiply the value in pounds per cubic foot by 0.016018463 to get grams per cubic centimetre.g/cm³ = lb/ft³ × 0.016018463
How to convert grams per cubic centimetre to pounds per cubic foot
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Doing it in your head
A rough conversion for when the calculator is not to hand. The error comes last, and it holds in both directions at that order of magnitude.
- Grams per cubic centimetre to pounds per cubic foot: × 50 + 25%. That gives 62.5 instead of 62.428, an error of 0.12%.
Grams per cubic centimetre to pounds per cubic foot – common values
| Grams per cubic centimetre (g/cm³) | Pounds per cubic foot (lb/ft³) |
|---|---|
| 0.5 | 31.214 |
| 0.8 | 49.9424 |
| 1 | 62.428 |
| 1.2 | 74.9136 |
| 2 | 124.856 |
| 2.7 | 168.555 |
| 5 | 312.14 |
| 7.8 | 486.938 |
| 10 | 624.28 |
| 19.3 | 1,204.86 |
Pounds per cubic foot to grams per cubic centimetre – common values
| Pounds per cubic foot (lb/ft³) | Grams per cubic centimetre (g/cm³) |
|---|---|
| 5 | 0.0800923 |
| 8 | 0.128148 |
| 10 | 0.160185 |
| 12 | 0.192222 |
| 20 | 0.320369 |
| 27 | 0.432499 |
| 50 | 0.800923 |
| 78 | 1.24944 |
| 100 | 1.60185 |
| 193 | 3.09156 |
About the units
Grams per cubic centimetre. Grams per cubic centimetre is built from the gram and the cubic centimetre, both decimal forms of SI units and legal throughout the EU. The unit comes from the old CGS system and is convenient in chemistry, materials science, mineralogy and metallurgy, because water then has a density of about 1. One gram per cubic centimetre is exactly 1,000 kilograms per cubic metre, and the same figure holds for kilograms per litre and tonnes per cubic metre. That factor of a thousand is the commonest slip here.
Pounds per cubic foot. Pounds per cubic foot is avoirdupois pounds per cubic foot. Since both the pound and the foot are exact figures the conversion is exact: one pound per cubic foot is 16.01846337396014 kilograms per cubic metre. The unit is used in American building and materials engineering for concrete, timber, insulation and soil, and in oil and gas; in the EU it is not a legal unit. Water is 62.43 pounds per cubic foot. The trap is pounds per gallon, nearly 7.5 times larger.