Kelvin Pascal Hertz would be K.Pa.Hz
From: Mark Henschel
Sent: Thursday, 2014-05-22 00:12
To: U.S. Metric Association
Cc: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:53849] Re: MG
I think if we want to be correct we would have to accept MG would really mean
MegaGiga, which makes no sense. Like cc (centi-centi) or KPH (Kelvin Pascal
Hertz) or kph ( kilo pico hour)
Mark
Oh, and a 5K race would be a 5 Kelvin race.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:46 AM, <cont...@metricpioneer.com> wrote:
I suspect that people reading the message that I had sent out would
reasonably conclude that in such a context, clearly the intent is to indicate
milligrams. It has absolutely nothing to do with any non-SI units. Can anyone
offer an answer to my original question?
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 12:40:56 +0100
From: Martin Vlietstra <vliets...@btinternet.com>
Reply-To: vliets...@btinternet.com
Subject: [USMA:53820] Re: MG
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <usma@colostate.edu>
The gauss is a cgs unit, not an SI unit. As Pierre rightly point out, 1 MG =
1hT or, as per the Wikipedia table at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_system , 1 G = 10^-4 T.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-u...@colostate.edu [mailto:owner-u...@colostate.edu] On Behalf
Of Pierre Abbat
Sent: 15 May 2014 10:43
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:53819] Re: MG
On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 16:36:34 cont...@metricpioneer.com wrote:
Dr Patricia Weeks here at the Salem Clinic printed out a perscription
for my wife today for 150 MG of a particular medication. Astonished, I
pointed out to Dr Weeks that when the M is capitalized, it means mega,
which in this case, would means 150 megagrams, or 150 metric tons of
medication.
MG is not megagram. It is megagauss (1 MG=1 hT).
Pierre
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