Meaning & use

Millimoles

noun·Academic

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Units of measurement, each equal to one-thousandth of a mole, used to express small quantities of a substance, especially in chemistry and medicine.

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The lab report showed the patient's blood glucose level in millimoles per liter.

The reaction required only a few millimoles of the catalyst to proceed efficiently.

A note on using this word

Abbreviated 'mmol', millimoles are commonly used on medical blood test results because the amounts involved are too small to conveniently express in whole moles.

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