Is anyone familiar with the use of γ as a symbol for a prefix? I've never come across it before, and according to Wikipedia, γ is used for "antibiotic concentration (1 γ = 1 µg/ml) in microbiology
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You are correct, it is not the mu=micro symbol, it predates it.
I thought it was a lambda, which I am too lazy to insert into lj, but it is like the gamma upside down.
It is something only old fogeys use, but I was taught it was ul, not a concentration. So for example 5 lambda = 5 ul.
This was from an old, and totally nuts, prof I worked for almost 10 years. Maybe she was using it wrong, wouldn't suprise me.
Or the thought just struck me that the gamma does mean 1 ug/ml and the lambda thing I was remembering was something else. In any case it was a system that predated the milli/micro/nano/femto/pico system we have now.
If it does in fact mean 1 ug/ml, that makes a lot of sense, because we were not getting results with nanogram concentrations, but only with microgram concentrations!
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I thought it was a lambda, which I am too lazy to insert into lj, but it is like the gamma upside down.
It is something only old fogeys use, but I was taught it was ul, not a concentration. So for example 5 lambda = 5 ul.
This was from an old, and totally nuts, prof I worked for almost 10 years. Maybe she was using it wrong, wouldn't suprise me.
Or the thought just struck me that the gamma does mean 1 ug/ml and the lambda thing I was remembering was something else. In any case it was a system that predated the milli/micro/nano/femto/pico system we have now.
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If it does in fact mean 1 ug/ml, that makes a lot of sense, because we were not getting results with nanogram concentrations, but only with microgram concentrations!
Thanks for your insight.
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