Full name: picomole
Plural form: picomoles
Symbol: pmol
Alternate spelling: picomols
Category type: amount of substance
Scale factor: 1.0E-12
The SI base unit for amount of substance is the mole.
1 mole is equal to 1000000000000 picomol.
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The SI prefix "pico" represents a factor of 10-12, or in exponential notation, 1E-12.
So 1 picomole = 10-12 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."