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Cardboard box
A kind of box · also called corrugated box, shipping box, carton
About
A flattened paper packaging container that spans over 33 inches in length before it is assembled for shipping.
Cardboard boxes vary widely in dimensions, ranging from tiny parcel mailers to large appliance crates several feet across. Corrugated board gets its rigidity from a wavy paper layer sandwiched between flat sheets, keeping the collapsed material remarkably flat. Once assembled and sealed, these light containers can support dozens of times their own weight during storage and transit.
From Wikipedia
Cardboard boxes are industrially prefabricated boxes, primarily used for packaging goods and materials. Specialists in industry seldom use the term cardboard because it does not denote a specific material.
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Questions people ask
- How big is a cardboard box?
- Folded flat, this box measures about 33.5 inches (0.85 m) long, 0.2 inches (0.005 m) thick, and weighs roughly 1.2 pounds (0.55 kg). That gives it a length similar to a standard acoustic guitar.
- How much space does a cardboard box take up?
- About 11.8 cups (2.8 L), the volume of its body.
Weight
1.21 lb (550 g)
- Space it takes up
- 11.8 cups (2.8 L)
- Length
- 33.5 in (85 cm)
- Height
- 0.197 in (5 mm)
Quick answer
Folded flat, this box measures about 33.5 inches (0.85 m) long, 0.2 inches (0.005 m) thick, and weighs roughly 1.2 pounds (0.55 kg). That gives it a length similar to a standard acoustic guitar.
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