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Symbol like a percent sign

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/16/2005 - 11:10.

Can anyone tell me the meaning of the symbol which looks like a percent sign % but has two copies of the lower 'o'? This relates to concentrations in an article I am reading on isotopic fractionation.

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Thu, 06/16/2005 - 11:19

as far as I can see, it's a 'unit' (as in mg or kJ) but what the actual unit is, I'm not sure yet...

~Jenny~

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Thu, 06/16/2005 - 11:32

I've had a moment of genius... Winking

If % is basically parts per hundred (when you're thinking about concentrations) then ‰ should be 'parts per thousand'

Of course, I could be wrong...

~Jenny~

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Thu, 06/16/2005 - 14:35

Jenny, you are correct - Â‰ means parts per thousand, which can also be written as ppt or permil.

Simon Jowitt

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Thu, 06/16/2005 - 15:56

Thanks very much, both of you. Now the only question I have is how on earth did you type Â‰ in? Unless you copied and pasted it in from somewhere else of course, which makes you wonder where they got it from in turn. Winking

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Fri, 06/17/2005 - 22:18

I just copy and pasted

~Jenny~

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Thu, 10/20/2005 - 15:06

Use Alt 0137 to get Â‰.

Bill

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