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aris_tgd ([personal profile] aris_tgd) wrote in [personal profile] alexseanchai 2016-09-26 12:35 am (UTC)

The way I learned to do it was to draw a long horizontal line, and put your starting components and units on the top of the right side, then draw a vertical line after and put the conversion I want in the next section. (I did this for chemistry, but it works for anything else you need to do conversions with.) So, for example, something like:

0.459g H2SO4 | mol H2SO4
-----------------------------------------------
[empty space]| (actual molar mass here) g H2SO4

= however many mol H2SO4


And then you go along and make sure that the top and bottom cancels out, and then at the end you ought to have remaining the units you're looking for. If you don't, or something doesn't cancel, that just indicates you need to go back and make sure your conversions aren't reversed. I still used it all the time at my job, even when I was only converting mL to uL and ppb to ppt.

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