Sentence examples for microgram from inspiring English sources

Even a small amount (less than a microgram) is enough to kill a healthy adult.

About 4mm long and almost transparent, with a single eye and fine red antennae running the length of its body, it is a copepod, a type of crustacean noted for being, microgram for microgram, the world's strongest animal.

One microgram releases 170,000,000 neutrons per minute.

The materials analyzed during isotopic investigations vary from microgram quantities of highly purified mineral grains to gram-sized quantities of rock powders.

The daily requirement of vitamin B12 is one microgram.

The maximum amount of plutonium-239 that can be indefinitely maintained in an adult without significant injury is 0.008 microcurie (equal to 0.13 microgram [1 microgram = 10−6 gram]).

Both analytical-scale liquid chromatography with samples at the microgram-to-milligram level and preparative-scale liquid chromatography at the tens-of-grams level have been developed.

The lawsuit says that until January, for example, DaVita required nurses to use one 10-microgram vial of Zemplar, a vitamin D drug, instead of a six-microgram dose in three two-microgram vials,.

Their first study involved two alcoholic patients, each of whom was given a single 200-microgram dose of the drug.

Half the people took a 200-microgram dose of selenium daily, and the other half an identical-looking dummy pill.

Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have shied away from recommending mandatory testing of all children, since a vast majority of children from middle- and upper-income families would not test above the 10-microgram level.