Universal Unit Lab

📖 Unit Guide & Definitions

• Nautical Mile: Used in air and sea navigation. $1 \text{ nmi} = 1.852 \text{ km}$.
• Light Year: The distance light travels in one year ($\approx 9.46$ trillion km).
• Quintal: A unit of mass equal to 100 kg. Commonly used in agriculture.
• Angstrom (Å): Used in crystallography and chemistry to measure atoms. $1 \text{ Å} = 10^{-10} \text{ meters}$.
• Micrograms (mcg/µg): 1,000,000th of a gram. Critical for medicine dosages.
• mmol (Millimole): Measures the amount of a substance (like blood sugar). To convert to mg/dL, you need the molecular weight of the specific substance.