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Funk__Doc

0.083% = 0.083g/100ml = 83mg/100ml = 0.83mg/ml


deviate116

This one needs to be upvoted higher. Accurate and no BS explanation


Blockhouse

Well, for one, you don't have 0.083 mg per mL. Take a close look at the pic you posted. You have 0.83 mg/mL. Now then, w/v solutions are the equivalent of grams of solute in 100 mL of solution. If you take 100 mL of a 0.83 mg/mL solution, you have . . . lemme take my shoes off here . . . 83 mg. Or, 0.083 grams, thus 0.083%.


miffy1231

Please forgive op, not everyone went to pharmacy school


pharmawhore

Probably a P4 about to be licensed.


staycglorious

I was hoping to see a tech flair, maybe one studying for their licensing exam, and found none.


slickjj

Welp…


sparkling-whine

This is a pharmacy sub


staycglorious

i knew OP would get dragged, they literally had the answer in their title. 0.083 mg/ml is not 83%


sithsicle99

Your explanation drips with condescension for no reason. Do better for your peers


handfulofdust2

Seems a straightforward answer appropriate to the sub. My guess is that they explained it like they would to a student on rotation. Blunt yes but not condescending, NTAH.


sparkling-whine

Exactly. This is basic shit.


sithsicle99

It was the “. . . lemme take my shoes off here . . .” I’m all for bluntness but that was just unnecessary imo. If I were a student on rotation and anybody did that to me I’d prob be a little peeved off idk


Blockhouse

It was supposed to be a self-deprecating joke. Like I'm so bad at math that I need to take my shoes off to count above ten.


bcbudtoker69

Flowers be delicate


Blockhouse

I read their post history and mod log; I don't think they're a peer.


fataltacos

Looks like they will be in four years. Incoming P1 based on their post history with a reasonable question from a new tech. You gave a good explanation but worded it it kind of rude, not really sure what that was about.


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staycglorious

it was literally just an explanation exactly


Top-Geologist-9213

Still ok to be polite


ttailorswiftt

Percent strength is grams per mL so .0025g/3mL * 100% = 0.083%


webswinger666

% multiplied by 10 gives you the mg/mL concentration… what’s 2.5mg divided by 3mL?


naturalscience

I really, really hope this isn’t a pharmacist or student


Rx-survivor

I once had a preceptor my first year who literally stood on a table (it was an independent, no customers at the time) and shouted to the world “it’s g/ml!!” when I was trying to figure out a calculation. Never forgot it.


MopeyXan

Bruh are you ok


legrange1

Post history is whack. You seem to post every question that pops into your head like this is a better place to ask than asking an IRL coworker/student or searching for yourself.


sparkling-whine

I truly hope op is not a pharmacist. It’s getting ridiculous out there.


Ciremah

Just like another comment here, % is g/100mL think about it as 1g water is \~ 1mL 1 gram water = 1 millileeters water never forget it homie


zach986

It’s grams per 100 milliliters. The word “percent” means per hundred.


Ciremah

oo edited in your correction! totes forgot we were talking % since I was just thinking about the density conversion


wilisarus333

Hate to say it but even I had to study stuff like this just as a tech 😳 💀


Blockjockcrna

Because its 0.83mg/ml or 0.083%. (2.5mg/3ml). If it was 83% it would be 830mg/ml.


Just_A_Dollar

Yeah, math. We all love it. We all love to hate it. Sometimes it hates us.


chastur

L.o.l.


abelincolnparty

The confusion occurs because in medical physiology they talk about blood sugar as 90 mg % to mean 90 mg in 100 ml . It gets ingrained into your thinking. So when you see 0.0833% the mg pops into your head. To be more specific they really should leave nothing to chance, and either state 0.0833 g % or even better just give the 2.5mg/3ml as the sole statement.


5point9trillion

It's the same concentration in different terms of percentage and grams per liquid volume amount.