Question

100 units of pencilline is eqvivalent to how many grams

Answer 1

What is a unit of penicillin?

International unit of penicillin is the specific penicillin activity 0.6 microgram of sodium salt.

Answer 2

Answer:

Penicillin is one of the few antibiotics that is still measured in terms of units rather than weight in milligrams or micrograms. One unit of penicillin represents the specific activity in 0.6 mcg of sodium penicillin. Thus 1 mg of penicillin sodium represents 1667 units of penicillin.