Full name: micromole
Plural form: micromoles
Symbol: umol
Alternate spelling: micromols
Category type: amount of substance
Scale factor: 1.0E-6
The SI base unit for amount of substance is the mole.
1 mole is equal to 1000000 micromole.
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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."