Square centimeters is a measure of surface area. Cubic centimeters are a measure of volume.
A cube that's 20 cm on an edge would have 6 surfaces, each 400 square cm in size, giving a total surface of 2400 square centimeters - slightly less than 1/4 of a square meter.
That same cube would have a volume of 8,000 cubic centimeters (which would be 8 liters.)
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Cubic centimeters measure volume. Centimeters measure length. Think in terms of the difference in measuring how much milk you want to buy compared to how tall you are.
A cubic unit is a volume eg. m³ A square unit is an area eg. m²
Well, honey, a cubic meter is equivalent to 1,000,000 cubic centimeters. Since we're talking about converting volume to area, you would need to take the square root of that to get the area in square centimeters. So, there are 1,000,000 square centimeters in 1 cubic meter.
To convert square centimeters (cm²) to liters (L), you first need to know the thickness or height in centimeters (cm) of the substance you are working with. Since square centimeters measure area and liters measure volume, you need to multiply the area in square centimeters by the height in centimeters to get the volume in cubic centimeters (cm³). Finally, to convert cubic centimeters to liters, divide the volume in cubic centimeters by 1000 (since 1 liter is equal to 1000 cubic centimeters).
Since there are 1,000 cubic centimeters to one liter, 66.3 liters = 66,300 cubic centimeters.