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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

That's 0 milligrams. 0 magnesium would be "0 Mg" (pay attention to capitalisation). Or even "0mg Mg".

[–] Wilzax 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But but but 0 Mg would mean 0 megagrams! Capitalization doesn't fix the ambiguity!!1!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

0mg is unambiguous. 0Mg has the two options. The issue is just that the OP is wrong (well, partially right but not what they wanted).

[–] platypus_plumba 3 points 11 months ago

0 milligrams of magnesium.

[–] allroy 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

people are focused on other wrong things but.... the past participle of run is run

https://homework.study.com/explanation/what-is-the-past-participle-of-run.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah it's seriously upsetting.

[–] MashedTech 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

0 milligrams or 0 Magnesium?

[–] az04 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Instead of arguing about 0Mg vs 0mg - use the best of both and upset everyone: 0ᴍg

[–] Nikki 3 points 11 months ago

youve heard of uppercase and lowercase, meet middlecase

[–] unlucky 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

While we're intentionally avoiding the joke, a space should be placed between the number and the unit, preferably a non-breaking one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Mg: 0 mg

IUPAC convention needs a space between number and unit. You can only omit the space for % or degrees.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's deadly isn't it