Full name: millibarn
Plural form: millibarns
Symbol: mbn
Category type: area
Scale factor: 1.0E-31
The SI derived unit for area is the square meter.
1 square meter is equal to 1.0E+31 millibarn.
Valid units must be of the area type.
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The SI prefix "milli" represents a factor of 10-3, or in exponential notation, 1E-3.
So 1 millibarn = 10-3 barns.
The definition of a barn is as follows:
A barn is a unit of area, abbreviated mostly as "bn", equal to 10-28 m2. Although not an official SI unit, it is widely used by nuclear physicists, since it is convenient for expressing the cross sectional area of nuclei and nuclear reactions. A barn is approximately equal to the area of a uranium nucleus.