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== SI multiples == {{main|Orders of magnitude (mass)}}<!--NOTE TO EDITORS: This section is linked from [[Caffeine]] as well as many other Wikipedia articles. Please do not delete or rename without fixing them.--> {{Redirect|Milligram|the American band|Milligram (band)|the Serbian band|Miligram (band)|the horse|Milligram (horse)}} Because an SI unit may not have multiple prefixes (see [[SI prefix]]), prefixes are added to ''[[gram]]'', rather than the base unit ''kilogram'', which already has a prefix as part of its name.<ref>BIPM: SI Brochure: Section 3.2, ''[http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/section3-2.html The kilogram]'' {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160329162832/http://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure/section3-2.html |date=March 29, 2016 }}</ref> For instance, one-millionth of a kilogram is 1{{nbsp}}mg (one milligram), not 1{{nbsp}}ΞΌkg (one microkilogram). <div style="float:center; margin-left: 1em;"> {{SI multiples | unit = gram | symbol = g | p= | n= | mc= | m= | k= | M= | G= | T= | note = Common prefixed units are in bold face.<ref group="Note">Criterion: A combined total of at least five occurrences on the [[British National Corpus]] and the [[Corpus of Contemporary American English]], including both the singular and the plural for both the -''gram'' and the -''gramme'' spelling.</ref> }} </div>
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