Scientific Notation and Metric Prefixes

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What is scientific notation?

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A way to express very large or very small numbers in the form of a x 10^n, where a is a number between 1 and 10, and n is an integer.

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What does the prefix 'milli' mean?

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It means one thousandth (1/1000) or 10^-3.

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What does the prefix 'micro' mean?

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It means one millionth (1/1,000,000) or 10^-6.

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What does the prefix 'nano' mean?

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It means one billionth (1/1,000,000,000) or 10^-9.

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What does the prefix 'kilo' mean?

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It means one thousand (1000) or 10^3.

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What does the prefix 'mega' mean?

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It means one million (1,000,000) or 10^6.

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What does the prefix 'giga' mean?

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It means one billion (1,000,000,000) or 10^9.

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Convert 2.5 x 10^-4 meters to micrometers.

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250 micrometers.

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Convert 0.004543 Liters to milliliters.

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4.543 milliliters.

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Convert 0.0000002203 Liters to nanoliters.

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220.3 nanoliters.