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yoctomole

yoctomole noun: an SI unit of amount of substance equal to 10⁻²⁴ moles. Symbol: ymol. The yoctomole is approximately 0.6 of an individual particle.

Noun

yoctomole (plural yoctomoles)

  1. An SI unit of amount of substance equal to 10⁻²⁴ moles. Symbol: ymol. The yoctomole is approximately 0.6 of an individual particle.
    • A low cost, 0.75-mW helium neon laser, operating in the green region at 534.5 nm, is used to excite fluorescence from tetramethylrhodamine isothiocyanate-labelled DNA fragments that have been separated by capillary gel electrophoresis.The detection limit (3σ) for the dye is 500 ymol [1 yoctomole (1...1991, Da Yong Chen et al., “Low-cost, high-sensitivity laser-induced fluorescence detection for DNA sequencing by capillary gel electrophoresis”, in Journal of Chromatography, volume 559, →DOI, page...
    Synonyms:
    ymol

Synonyms of yoctomole

  • ymol

Forms of yoctomole

pluralyoctomoles

Origin of yoctomole

From yocto- + mole.

Questions about yoctomole

What does yoctomole mean?
Yoctomole means an SI unit of amount of substance equal to 10⁻²⁴ moles. Symbol: ymol. The yoctomole is approximately 0.6 of an individual particle.
What part of speech is yoctomole?
Yoctomole is a noun.
What is the plural of yoctomole?
The plural of yoctomole is yoctomoles.

Words near yoctomole in the dictionary

  1. yoctolitres
  2. yoctometer
  3. yoctometers
  4. yoctometre
  5. yoctometres
  6. yoctomole
  7. yoctonewton
  8. yoctosecond
  9. yoctoseconds
  10. Yocum
  11. Yocums

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