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Size Chart The table below can be used to convert American Wire Gauge (AWG) to square mm cross sectional area.

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Unit Converter 0000 0.46 11.68 107.16 Shortcut to Home
Temperature 000 0.4096 10.40 84.97 Screen?
0.0 00 0.3648 9.27 67.40
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2 0.2576 6.54 33.61
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Length 3 0.2294 5.83 26.65
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1.0 4 0.2043 5.19 21.14
m 5 0.1819 4.62 16.76 meetickets
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7 0.1443 3.67 10.55
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8 0.1285 3.26 8.36
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9 0.1144 2.91 6.63 the Travlet
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miles 11 0.0907 2.30 4.17 participants!
Convert! 12 0.0808 2.05 3.31
13 0.072 1.83 2.63
Volume
1.0 14 0.0641 1.63 2.08
m3 15 0.0571 1.45 1.65
liters 16 0.0508 1.29 1.31
in3 17 0.0453 1.15 1.04
ft3 18 0.0403 1.02 0.82
us gal 19 0.0359 0.91 0.65
Convert! 20 0.032 0.81 0.52
Weight 21 0.0285 0.72 0.41
1.0 22 0.0254 0.65 0.33
kgf 23 0.0226 0.57 0.26
N 24 0.0201 0.51 0.20
lbf 25 0.0179 0.45 0.16
Convert! 26 0.0159 0.40 0.13
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