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[mayoraasei]

Someone who does chemistry or biochemistry or anything chemistry related here:

Does

mmol/L = mM

?

I always thought it did ~~;

Comments

[nunuunuuu.livejournal.com]

Megamoles per litre? Uh I guess so?

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Isn't it millimoles per litre? O__o;;;;;

Argh...stupid physiologists, took a mark off because I wrote (mM) on the axis of a graph instead of mmol/L (yes, they corrected it to mmol/L...I was like...wtf...I thought they were the same thing?)

[nunuunuuu.livejournal.com]

Oh XD Millimoles. On the internet it seems like mM is indeed acceptable notation.

[meissa.livejournal.com]

I don't know about your school, but around here, mM = "milliMolar" which is indeed mmol/L.

[casina.livejournal.com]

Hi I found your journal on the uni computers (I am very bored) and I thought Id tell you (probably a bit too late) that yes it is. I was just wondering what subjects you do?

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Hi hi ^^ What uni do you go to?

Our course was integrated this year, so a number of disciplines were taught jointly for a given "theme" (such as cardiorespiratory system or nervous system).

The subject that caused this post was actually physiology >_>; They apparently believed that mM is not the same as mmol/L. How utterly unreliable. *sigh*

[casina.livejournal.com]

University of Sydney. I just found your livejournal on the library computer's internet explorer's history so I assumed just then you'd be at the same uni as I am - whoops! Im guessing youve got a friend who visited your journal here or something...

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

OMG!! I hope not!!! O___o;;;;;

*Shall remember to tell everyone to clear history after using uni computers*

What course do you do?

[casina.livejournal.com]

Molecular Biotechnology (third year - what about you?), but Im majoring in biochemistry, also did some chemistry and biology subjects.

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Medical Science, just finished 2nd year ^^

I'm still debating whether to do biochemistry or pharmacology. Is 3rd year biochem fun? Interesting? Er...comprehensible? Pass-able? Lol.

[casina.livejournal.com]

Theyre changing it next year anyway to split the 12 cp subjects to 6 cp (like all other subjects). I enjoy biochemistry but mostly for the protein structure and genetics side of things. Most people I know find it barely passable but at least its interesting. Not having done pharmacology I cant really compare but from what I observe from my pharm friends there is less lab time! Ive heard that next year biochem might be a bit easier after course changes, who knows!

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...really? I really didn't like the little we did of genetics this year.

Thanks for your comments though! Very helpful ^^

[casina.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.