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The combinations of letters “ppm,” “ppb,” and “ppt,” and the terms part per million, part per billion, and part per trillion, and the like, are not used to express the values of quantities.
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Very low solute concentrations are often expressed using appropriately small units such as parts per million (ppm) or parts per billion (ppb). Like percentage (“part per hundred”) units, ppm and ppb may be defined in terms of masses, volumes, or mixed mass-volume units.
Definition. Parts per million (ppm) and parts per billion (ppb) show a relationship between two quanti-ties that use the same units. A part per million could be one drop per one million drops, one gram per one million grams, etc. By definition, one ppm = 1,000 ppb.
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Aug 24, 2019 · Related concentration units are parts per thousand (ppth), parts per million (ppm) and parts per billion (ppb). Parts per thousand is defined as follows: \[ppth\: =\: \frac{mass\: of\: solute}{mass\: of\: sample}\times 1000\]
In science and engineering, the parts-per notation is a set of pseudo-units to describe small values of miscellaneous dimensionless quantities, e.g. mole fraction or mass fraction. Since these fractions are quantity-per-quantity measures, they are pure numbers with no associated units of measurement.
An even smaller concentration measurement, used for methane (CH4) is parts per billion (ppb). One ppb is one part in 1 billion. One drop of ink in one of the largest tanker trucks used to haul gasoline would be an ink concentration of 1 ppb.
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They are abbreviations for the words parts-per-million, parts-per-billion, and parts-per-trillion. These symbols have become commonplace in everyday use, in the media for example, as well as in scientific and technical contexts.
