How To Use Microgram In A Sentence
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Specifically, sodium selenite is often unsafe at levels exceeding 600 micrograms, whereas selenium from yeast, L-selenomethionine and sodium selenate are generally much safer.
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Many children had more than 60 micrograms of lead per decilitre of blood, six times the level that the Centres for Disease Control CDC, an American government agency, says should prompt public action.
The Economist: Daily news and views
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In the European parliament, however, 10 of the swabs were smeared with between 20 micrograms and 30 micrograms.
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Section VI of the proposal covers the challenges and risks to laser weapons ... mainly that of cheaply producing large quantities of Polonium-210 (currently produced only in microgram quantities, and extremely lethal).
Boing Boing
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To confuse matters even more, some products list the amounts of vitamins and minerals by milligrams or micrograms, while others use international units (a microgram equals 3.33 international units).
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Each dose contains 50 micrograms (a microgram is one-millionth of a gram and a gram is the weight of one-fifth of a teaspoon of water).
Global Immunization: Vaccine Coverage is Variable
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At Basildon police station he was found to have 164 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres.
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The drink-drive limit stands at 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood and 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
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We analyzed each sample in triplicate, and results were defined in micrograms per gram of dry lung tissue.
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Wells in Mauritius have high nitrate levels reaching 50 micrograms per liter, which is up to the World Health Organization-defined safety limits.
Western Indian Ocean Islands and freshwater resources
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They said a survey in an informal settlement in the Durban metropolitan area had shown that half of the children there had a blood lead concentration of above ten micrograms per decilitre of blood.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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She knew full well that this stolid citizen of the “motherland” had never ingested so much as a microgram of Xanax, Prozac, or Halcion.
One Flight Up
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If your child has a blood level of 20 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dl) or two blood tests of 1519 mcg/dl, your home should be tested.
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Let me show you a little bit of context here, comparing what we call particulate matter in big urban zone like Chicago, for example, 20 micrograms per cubic meter, versus Beijing, 260 micrograms per cubic meter per day.
CNN Transcript Aug 1, 2008
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The Federal Safe Drinking Water Act standards have a drinking water criteria for total mercury at 2 ppb or 2 microgram per liter (ug/L).
Waldo Jaquith - A new study says mercury is commonly found in corn syrup.
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The concentrations of manganese in two samples of surface soil taken from area A were 748 and 629 micrograms per gram, dry weight.
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The drink-drive limit stands at 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood and 35 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
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He warned the emission levels were on average in excess of 100 micrograms per cubic metre.
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Since some xenobiotics are toxic in much smaller quantities than the milligram, smaller fractions of the gram are used, such as microgram (µg).
Dose
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Vitamin A in whole milk varies from 69 micrograms per 100 millilitres in the summer to 44 micrograms in the winter.
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Under the previously allowed four pound per acre rate of chlorpyrifos, the ADI was right at the one microgram per kilogram a day limit.
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The pharmacist noticed the prescription for the dose had been altered from 50 to 100 microgrammes, and the alteration had not been initialled.
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Today, the average is 1.34 micrograms per decilitre.
Canada.com
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Tests on pure Paterson's Curse honey have shown that it contains up to 2 micrograms of toxin per gram of honey.
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Lead blood levels during the early 1990s were 25 micrograms per decilitre in Mexico City and Budapest, 30 in Cairo, and 40 in Bangkok, well above the 2 micrograms per decilitre in the United States (reflecting an eightfold decline over the preceding 15 years).
Chapter 11
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Since a kilogram is 1000 grams and a daily intake of lactitol is given as 10 grams, the amount of protein in an average daily serving of lactitol is therefore 32 micrograms of casein and 97 micrograms for lactoglobulin.
Lactitol - Another Nondairy "Lact"
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A breath test recorded 85 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of her breath - the legal limit is 35.
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The CDC lists on its Web site that it takes 500 micrograms of ricin, which is about the size of a pinhead, to kill a person.
Understanding Ricin
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Now, the point about polonium is of course that we need, as you just said, very tiny amounts, a microgram, which is a millionth of gram, of polonium will do terrible damage to you once inside your body.
CNN Transcript Nov 29, 2006
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Data now suggest that lead affects development of kids’ thinking skills at concentrations below 10 micrograms per deciliters ([microg/dl) of blood.
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Sergeant Simmons indicated that the lowest reading in breath was 47 micrograms in 100 millilitres of breath.
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The level that's regarded in Australia as being an unacceptable level is more than 10 micrograms per decilitre in the blood, which means 10-millionths of a gram for each tenth of a litre of blood.
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Their repeated experiments with the brake fern showed that it is capable of reducing initial arsenic concentration of 200 micrograms per litre by a hundredfold within 24 hours.
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Monitoring of the concentration of airborne respirable dust and ash around the volcano beginning in August 1997 showed that concentrations of ash have regularly exceeded 50 micrograms/m3 per 24-hour rolling average in areas subject to frequent ash fall.
Volcanic Ash -- Effects on Health and Mitigation Strategies
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The trouble was that a mere microgram (millionth of a gram) can kill, if lodged in the lungs.
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For women, taking 400 micrograms of folic acid in early pregnancy can protect the baby from conditions like spina bifida.
High-dose supplements and cancer risk
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The test showed a blood mercury level of 72 micrograms per liter, which is nearly 14 times higher than the New York State reporting level.
Imax Chief Targets Toxic Mercury
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The current federal blood level that defines lead poisoning is 10 micrograms of lead per deciliter.
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In the most recent studies, lead was not detectable in most foods and the average dietary intake of lead was about 1 microgram (a microgram is a millionth of a gram) per kilogram of body weight/day.
Public Health Statement for Lead
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In the years 1986 to 1991, the average adult in the United States consumed an average of 0.8 micrograms (a microgram is a millionth of a gram) of DDT a day.
Public Health Statement for DDT, DDE, and DDD
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The flies used in the metabolic rate study were later weighed to the nearest microgram on a microbalance.
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In Africa, between 18 and 24 percent of children have concentrations of more than 10 micrograms per decilitre (μg/dl) of blood.
Chemical use in Africa~ opportunities and risks
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The level that's regarded in Australia as being an unacceptable level is more than 10 micrograms per decilitre in the blood, which means 10-millionths of a gram for each tenth of a litre of blood.
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Data are expressed as micrograms of hydroxyproline per milligram dry weight.
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The U.S. government sets a limit for drinking water at 10 micrograms of arsenic per liter, which is exceeded in the water consumed by 13 million Americans who mostly live in rural areas that rely on wells to bring up ground water, the researchers wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Arsenic has firm link to diabetes in U.S. study « Isegoria
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It takes 1000 grams to make a kilogram, so that means a microgram is a billionth of a kilogram.
Web Teacher › The Kilogram: Just a Little Off
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Exceeding the Tolerable Upper Intake Level for selenium of 400 micrograms per day can lead to selenosis.
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In Nairobi's Central Business District the lead levels were 5,000 micrograms per kilogram.
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One child's level jumped from two micrograms per deciliter to 35 after eating the grasshoppers.
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What do you do when you have to convert Fahrenheit to Celsius, or micrograms to hectograms?
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If your child has a blood level of 20 micrograms per deciliter (mcg/dl) or two blood tests of 1519 mcg/dl, your home should be tested.
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Heroin addicts found dead from overdose, he will testify, are often found with only one or two hundred micrograms per liter in their blood.
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What this means is that the maximum safe dose for ingested mercury is 0.1 microgram per kilogram of weight of the person ingesting the mercury per day.
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He was arrested and at Cheltenham Police station he gave a breath alcohol sample on the intoximeter which produced a reading of 87 micrograms of alcohol per 100 ml of breath.
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The rats received either 60 or 300 micrograms per kilogram of body weight.
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The levels in three samples exceeded the safety limit for the ASP toxin of 20 micrograms per gram.
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Two micrograms of the lipid-peptide mixture was deposited on one plate from a stock solution of organic solvent.
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The results are expressed in micrograms per milligram protein.
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Sergeant Simmons indicated that the lowest reading in breath was 47 micrograms in 100 millilitres of breath.
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He appeared to be drunk and a breath test gave a reading of 125 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
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The average level was 11 micrograms per decilitre and it ranged from 4 to 31.
Times, Sunday Times
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A breath test recorded 85 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres of her breath - the legal limit is 35.
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A microgram is a millionth of a gram; a deciliter is one-tenth of a liter.
For many kids, lead threat is right in their own homes
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These alkaloids are produced when our bodies metabolise beer, wine or spirits, and have been found in chocolate at concentrations of as high as 7 micrograms per gram.
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The respondent was arrested and conveyed to Chichester police station where he provided a breath specimen of 78 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath.
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Keep in mind, though, that the amounts of vitamin K in healthy oils are still tiny — one tablespoon of canola oil has 20 micrograms.
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If you followed any individual butterfly along its meandering course it slowed, dallied and looped around every blossom and nectar source in sight, and yet never once landed; in truth, they kept flying for so long it was hard to believe that the microgram of wing muscle on these insects could sustain such marathon efforts.
Country diary: Cosford Hall, Suffolk
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The groups received different doses of the vaccine, ranging from 4 micrograms to 500 micrograms per dose.
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The device can detect even tiny concentrations of less than one microgram (one millionth of a gram) per liter.
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Exposure to respirable-sized free crystalline silica from most ash falls are typically of short duration (days to weeks), and data suggests that the recommended respirable exposure limit of 50 micrograms/m3 of air can be exceeded for short periods of times for the general population.
Volcanic Ash -- Effects on Health and Mitigation Strategies
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A typical dose is 10-15 micrograms, about one tenth of a regular tab.
Times, Sunday Times
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The results were expressed in terms of micrograms per gram of creatinine.
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Most wine doesn't have any guaiacol, though if it's aged in oak barrels it can end up with 20 to 50 micrograms per liter.
Sipping These Wines Is Like Smoking and Drinking at the Same Time
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At Basildon police station he was found to have 164 micrograms of alcohol in 100 millilitres.
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Since a kilogram is 1000 grams and a daily intake of lactitol is given as 10 grams, the amount of protein in an average daily serving of lactitol is therefore 32 micrograms of casein and 97 micrograms for lactoglobulin.
Lactitol - Another Nondairy "Lact"
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Data now suggest that lead affects development of kids’ thinking skills at concentrations below 10 micrograms per deciliters ([microg/dl) of blood.
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One strain survived less than a day when exposed to a concentration of at least 2 micrograms per milliliter.
