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Northerner
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What sort of blood test? A fingerprick is mmol/l (millimoles per litre), an HbA1c is a percentage e.g. 6.7% or in new money 50 mmol/mol (millimoles per mole) 🙂
imtrying
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sorry yes, finger prick.
ahhh so the only difference in 6.7 and 50 is '/l' or '/mol' AMAZING!! lol so mmol was right....kinda haha and would have worked for both! lol
Thanks Alan. I feel so stupid sometimes.
Just wanted to educate myself (well remind myself of days gone past!) and others ....
The mole is a unit of measurement used in chemistry to express amounts of a chemical substance, defined as an amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities (e.g., atoms, molecules, ions, electrons) as there are atoms in 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C), the isotope of carbon with atomic weight 12. This corresponds to a value of 6.02214179(30)?1023 elementary entities of that substance. It is one of the base units in the International System of Units, and has the unit symbol mol.
So a mmol is 1,000th of the quantity mentioned above.
I hope that is illuminating!
The mole is a unit of measurement used in chemistry to express amounts of a chemical substance, defined as an amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities (e.g., atoms, molecules, ions, electrons) as there are atoms in 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C), the isotope of carbon with atomic weight 12. This corresponds to a value of 6.02214179(30)?1023 elementary entities of that substance. It is one of the base units in the International System of Units, and has the unit symbol mol.
So a mmol is 1,000th of the quantity mentioned above.
I hope that is illuminating!
Phil65
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Just wanted to educate myself (well remind myself of days gone past!) and others ....
The mole is a unit of measurement used in chemistry to express amounts of a chemical substance, defined as an amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities (e.g., atoms, molecules, ions, electrons) as there are atoms in 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C), the isotope of carbon with atomic weight 12. This corresponds to a value of 6.02214179(30)?1023 elementary entities of that substance. It is one of the base units in the International System of Units, and has the unit symbol mol.
So a mmol is 1,000th of the quantity mentioned above.
I hope that is illuminating!
Clear as mud! 🙂
Northerner
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Just wanted to educate myself (well remind myself of days gone past!) and others ....
The mole is a unit of measurement used in chemistry to express amounts of a chemical substance, defined as an amount of a substance that contains as many elementary entities (e.g., atoms, molecules, ions, electrons) as there are atoms in 12 grams of pure carbon-12 (12C), the isotope of carbon with atomic weight 12. This corresponds to a value of 6.02214179(30)?1023 elementary entities of that substance. It is one of the base units in the International System of Units, and has the unit symbol mol.
So a mmol is 1,000th of the quantity mentioned above.
I hope that is illuminating!
Just what I thought it was then! 😉
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