12 mg = to how many mcg?
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- 3+ months ago by sharron1447
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- mcg
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physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/prefixes.html
You just have to memorize this stuff, at least the ones you work with all the time. It's ok to bookmark the page so you can look up the others when you run across them.
There is a prefix every three powers of ten, except for 100, 10, 1/10, and 1/100. To go from one to another you use the LARD rule: LEFT ADD RIGHT DEDUCT. When moving the decimal to the LEFT you ADD to the power of ten. When going to the RIGHT you DEDUCT from the power of ten.
So m stand for milli which means times 10^-3 and u stands for micro which means 10^-6.
Write down 12. You need to DEDUCT 3 to get from -3 to -6 so you move the decimal 3 places to the RIGHT. The answer is 12,000 ug.
It's ug, not mcg. u is a Greek letter micro, meaning one millionth.