MCF - Thousand Cubic Feet

Categories: Metrics

It's volume. A thousand cubic feet is kind of the standard shipping unit for a lot of things. Natural gas. Oil. Other liquid-y things.

You'll see the MCF abbreviation and wonder, WTF? In fact, the "M" there, which you'd think would be "T" for "thousand"...is French for "mille," which is "thousand" in the land of awesome white sauce, castles, and union-dominated-everything since the country Heard The People Sing.

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