What is smaller than a millagram?

Question

What is smaller than a millagram?

Answer 1

The next typical weight used is :

Microgram (10^-6 grams)

But you could use the SI naming convention and use

Nanogram (10^-9)

Picogram (10^-12)

Femtogram (10^-15)

Attogram (10^-18)

zeptogram (10^-21)

yoctogram (10^-24)

Answer 2

a milligram is a thousandth of a gram

a microgram is a ten-thousandth of a gram

a nanogram is a hundred-thousandth of a gram

etc..

Answer 3

microgram

nanogram

picogram- 1 billionth

Answer 4

The smallest unit is 1.783e−36 kg, the mass equivalent of one electronvolt of energy. The smallest unit for which there is a name is 10e−27, the yoctogram (yg).

Check out "Orders of magnitude (mass)" on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_m...

Answer 5

Half a milligram

The next smallest standard prefix would be a micro (10^-6).  You usually don't see that small of a prefix associated with mass though because that is approaching the precision of most scales.