is this correct ?

[travis]

I\'d like to find mcg. I have 5 grams.

Solution:

5gm X 1000ml = 5,000ml
X 1,000mcg
_______
5,000,000mcg
is this correct?

Travis

[travis]

I\'d like to find mcg. I have 5 grams.
Solution:

5gm X 1000ml = 5,000ml X 1,000mcg = 5,000,000mcg

is this correct?

Travis

[Whitehall]

Right answer, wrong method.

1,000,000 mcg per gram X 5 grams =

5 million micrograms per 5 grams.

(ml stands for milliliter - 1,000 ml per liter. 1 ml of water weights 1 gram)

[oscar]

travis,

OK, I\'m curious. What do you have 5 grams of?

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[ February 15, 2002: Message edited by: Wilde Oscar ]

[travis]

Whitehall,

Thanks for correcting my milliliter it have been milligrams, but anyway, 5,000,000mcg is a lot of pheromone. What is after mcg? Picogram?

Oscar,

I just wanted to find out if I still remember my conversion factors.

Travis

[travis]

If there is 1,000,000mcg ----> gram, how many zeros are there in picogram ---> gram? if any.

Travis

[**DONOTDELETE**]

Oh boy... OK, a microgram is most commonly denoted in english text as a \'ug\'. This is because the greek letter mu (looks like a u but with a line on the preceding downstroke, if that makes any sense) is the scientific prefix for 10^-6 (ten to the minus 6th) Next in the three order of magnitude line is a nanogram (ng, or 10^-9) followed by the picogram (pg, 10^-12) and then followed by the femtogram (fg, 10^-15) Now, if anyone needs to go below that quanity, I am pretty sure I do not want to know about it.