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Prefix used to denote that the technique measures small quantities, either with respect to the amount of sample studied, or with respect to the change in the properties measured.
Notes:
- This prefix has been applied to many thermal methods, and the equipment associated with them, for example, microbalance, microreactor, microcalorimeter and also to the technique itself: microthermal, microscopic, and the property studied: microstructural.
- The opposite prefix, macro-, is also occasionally used.
- Mathematically, micro = \(\upmu\) = \(\pu{E-6}\).