µg/L\text{µg/L}

microgram per litre

Mass concentration

One microgram of dissolved substance in one litre of solution, a thousandth of a milligram per litre. It is the unit of trace analysis — heavy metals, pesticides, disinfection by-products and most things a drinking-water regulation sets a limit on well below the milligram range.

Watch out: Equal to one part per billion in water, with the same density proviso that applies to mg/L. At these levels the sampling and the handling usually contribute more error than the instrument does, so a µg/L result carries meaning only alongside the method that produced it.

1 µg/L\text{µg/L} 0.001 mg/L\text{mg/L}

One microgram per litre in every mass concentration unit

0.001milligram per litre (mg/L)
1microgram per litre (µg/L)this unit
0.000001gram per litre (g/L)
0.001microgram per millilitre (µg/mL)
0.0001milligram per decilitre (mg/dL)
1.00000e-07gram per decilitre (g/dL)
0.000001kilogram per cubic metre (kg/m³)
1nanogram per millilitre (ng/mL)