0.1 uM to microliters - (Sep/26/2012 )
How do you convert 0.1 or 0.4 uM (micro molar) to uL (micro liter)
You don't - the units are not compatible uM is a measure of concentration, ul is a measure of volume... If you want to know uM/ul or mg/ul or something similar that is a different story.
yes, i wanted to know uM/uL
I use simple uM (micromolar) -> pmol/uL.
0.4 uM -> 0.4 pmol/uL, thats 0.0004 uM/uL
But for such calculations you only need to know that uM means uM/L. From that you only need to calculate the thousands.
Trof on Wed Sep 26 14:07:24 2012 said:
But for such calculations you only need to know that uM means uM/L.
not to be a stickler (okay, maybe it is to be a stickler), uM means um/L (micromolar means micromoles per liter).
Yeah right, umol/l actually. I still don't get why you need to write liters in big letters in english 
Trof on Thu Sep 27 21:15:14 2012 said:
I still don't get why you need to write liters in big letters in english
You don't - Americans use "L", other english speaking countries (UK, Australia, NZ, probably Canada too) use "l" as far as I can tell. Technically capitals should only be used for units that are derived from someone's name, e.g. Volt from Alessandro Volta.
bob1 on Thu Sep 27 22:11:27 2012 said:
Trof on Thu Sep 27 21:15:14 2012 said:
I still don't get why you need to write liters in big letters in english
You don't - Americans use "L", other english speaking countries (UK, Australia, NZ, probably Canada too) use "l" as far as I can tell. Technically capitals should only be used for units that are derived from someone's name, e.g. Volt from Alessandro Volta.
i'm not sure but it may have come from typewriter days. most typewriters did not have a "1" key. lower case L was used when the number 1 was to be typed ("l"). i would think that it may have been confusing to type "ll" for "1 liter".
It may seem as a good reason, but.. those days are long gone and.. the rest of the world didn't use typewriters? 
mdfenko on Thu Sep 27 19:24:32 2012 said:
Trof on Wed Sep 26 14:07:24 2012 said:
But for such calculations you only need to know that uM means uM/L.
not to be a stickler (okay, maybe it is to be a stickler), uM means um/L (micromolar means micromoles per liter).
umol/L, um would be micrometer
bob1 on Thu Sep 27 22:11:27 2012 said:
Trof on Thu Sep 27 21:15:14 2012 said:
I still don't get why you need to write liters in big letters in english
You don't - Americans use "L", other english speaking countries (UK, Australia, NZ, probably Canada too) use "l" as far as I can tell. Technically capitals should only be used for units that are derived from someone's name, e.g. Volt from Alessandro Volta.
That rule is for SI units. Litre is accepted but is not SI.
From the SI web:
http://www.bipm.org/en/si/si_brochure/chapter4/table6.html
(l and L appear as abbreviations)
In the 16th CGPM (1979):http://www.bipm.org/en/CGPM/db/16/6/
(5) 
(7) 
The 16th Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures (CGPM),
recognizing the general principles adopted for writing the unit symbols in Resolution 7 of the 9th CGPM (1948),
considering that the symbol l for the unit litre was adopted by the Comité International des Poids et Mesures (CIPM) in 1879 and confirmed in the same Resolution of 1948,
considering also that, in order to avoid the risk of confusion between the letter l and the number 1, several countries have adopted the symbol L instead of l for the unit litre,
considering that the name litre, although not included in the Système International d'Unités, must be admitted for general use with the System,
decides, as an exception, to adopt the two symbols l and L as symbols to be used for the unit litre,
considering further that in the future only one of these two symbols should be retained,
invites the CIPM to follow the development of the use of these two symbols and to give the 18th CGPM its opinion as to the possibility of suppressing one of them.
And a note at the end states that