The word "milligrams" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a unit of mass in the metric system equal to one thousandth of a gram. For example, "This tablet contains 500 milligrams of paracetamol."
According to Mar Fernández-Méndez of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, in the summer of 1982 a column of Arctic seawater with a cross-sectional area of a square metre fixed 26 milligrams of carbon a day.
Treated plants weighed an average of more than 150 milligrams while untreated plants averaged 60 milligrams.Whether this accelerated early growth was due only to penetration of the seed coat, or was a more complex phenomenon, is still unclear.
Wingtip to wingtip they measure 3cm and they weigh just 80 milligrams.
Rather than use metal as an armature, the firm strips ions from a few milligrams of argon gas and uses the resulting conductive plasma to transfer electrical energy from one rail to another.
Now, like some prince in faery, he had got the stuff on his fingertips, rubbed it into his eyes and seen the secrets of the universe.The next Monday, ever the good scientist, he deliberately took 0.25 milligrams of LSD diluted with 10cc of water.
But just a day later, Mr Fox sent the bill back to Congress, requesting changes.Under the bill, not only would it be legal to have up to 5 grams of marijuana, but half a gram of cocaine and 25 milligrams of heroin would also be permissible.
That does not seem to have happened, but the probe did sit on the asteroid's surface for about half an hour so there is a good chance that some material from the surface, if only a few milligrams of dust, will have made its way into the grab and will thus be sitting in the return capsule, waiting to be examined.
The volume of quantum dots required is minuscule, however: they are made in batches of a few milligrams at a time.In order to meet the growing demands of the display market, by contrast, around three tonnes of quantum dots will be needed each year by 2012, Mr Edelman predicts.
And mere milligrams—just a drop of either is enough to kill an adult in a couple of minutes.
Top-notch sapphires that in 2009 would have fetched $65,000-80,000 65,000-80,000unit of mass equal to 200 milligrams) now change hands for $150,000 or more, says Joe Menzie, a former head of the International Coloured Gemstone Association.
The researchers noticed, for instance, that no pigeons visited fields that had been sown with seed that had a fonofos concentration of more than 150 milligrams per kilogram of seed.
