Contrary to what many people believe, fossil fuels are not the remains of dead dinosaurs. In fact, most of the fossil fuels we find today were formed millions of years before the first dinosaurs. Fossil fuels were formed from plants and animals that lived 300 million years ago in primordial swamps and oceans (top).
One centimeter of length converted to decimeter equals to 0.10 dm. How many decimeters of length are in 1 centimeter? The answer is: The change of 1 cm ( centimeter ) unit of length measure equals = to 0.10 dm ( decimeter ) as the equivalent measure for the same length type.
How many centimeters equal one meter? The prefix centi comes from the latin word centum which means one hundred. This term has come over to English where we use cent for the coin which is a hundredth of a dollar. The prefix centi in the metric system also refers to a hundredth. There are 100 centimeters in a meter, 100 centiliters in a liter and 100 centigrams in a gram.