How many ml are in 800mg? - Answers

There can be no equivalence.A milligram is a measure of mass. A millilitre is a measure of volume. The two measure different things and,according to basic principles of dimensional analysis, conversion from one to the other is not valid.If you are not convinced, consider a millilitre of air. How many milligrams? Next consider a millilitre of water. How many milligrams?The masses of equal volumes of the two substances will clearly be very different. So there is no direct conversion between mass and volume: you need to know the density of the substance to enable you to carry out the conversion.Some people still believe that there is a conversion in relation to pure water but that is only approximately true. Until 1964 (nearly 50 year ago!) a litre was defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees Celsius and at a pressure of 760 millimetres of Mercury. With that definition a conversion would have been possible - but only for pure water and only under those conditions. In any case that definition of a litre was abandoned in favour of 1 litre =1000 cubic centimetres. As a result, the density of water at one atmospheric pressure is always less than 1. Its maximum value. at 4 deg C, is 0.999 972 g/cm3, not 1.