[USMA:36380] Re: Units used in popular science books: buy Canadian

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Around the lab I'm in we say 'em el' instead of millilitre; we just say the letters in the symbol rather than the word.  I've known people who say "migs per kig' instead of 'milligrams per kilogram', that I don't like.  However, I don't see a problem with simply saying the letters in the SI symbol.

Richard

On 3/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Very true. Around our lab, mg/mL is often pronounced as "miggs per mil".

On 2006 Mar 25, at 14:04, Remek Kocz wrote:

Mils are can be tricky.  To a machinist they may be thousands of an inch, but to a chemist they're milliliters.

Remek

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Scott Hudnall

San Francisco, CA USA

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