Super useful conversions between volumes and lengths
- 1 m^3 = 1000 L
- 1 cm^3 = mL
- 1 mm^3 = uL
- 1 um^3 = fL
- 100 µm x 100 µm x 100 µm = 1 nL
- 100,000 nm^3 (50 nm tall cylinder with 50 nm diameter) = 0.1 aL
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