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The aim of this article is to provide rigorous-but-simple steps to prove the hermiticity of the volume operator of Rovelli–Smolin and Ashtekar–Lewandowski from the angular momentum calculation, as well as pointing out some subtleties which have not been given a lot of attention previously. Besides of being hermitian, we also prove that both volume operators are real, symmetric, and positive semi-definite,...