Measurement unit: micromole

Full name: micromole

Plural form: micromoles

Symbol: umol

Alternate spelling: micromols

Category type: amount of substance

Scale factor: 1.0E-6




SI unit: mole

The SI base unit for amount of substance is the mole.
1 mole is equal to 1000000 micromole.



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Definition: Micromole

The SI prefix "micro" represents a factor of 10-6, or in exponential notation, 1E-6.

So 1 micromole = 10-6 moles.

The definition of a mole is as follows:

The mole is the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities as there are atoms in 0.012 kilogram of carbon 12; its symbol is "mol."


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