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Picocoulombs to Millicoulombs conversion

Picocoulombs to Millicoulombs conversion table

Picocoulombs (pC)	Millicoulombs (mC)
0	0
1	1e-9
2	2e-9
3	3e-9
4	4e-9
5	5e-9
6	6e-9
7	7e-9
8	8e-9
9	9e-9
10	1e-8
20	2e-8
30	3e-8
40	4e-8
50	5e-8
60	6e-8
70	7e-8
80	8e-8
90	9e-8
100	1e-7
1000	0.000001

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Converting Picocoulombs to Millicoulombs

1 picocoulomb (pC) is equal to $10^{-12}$ coulombs (C). 1 millicoulomb (mC) is equal to $10^{-3}$ coulombs (C).

To convert from picocoulombs to millicoulombs, you follow these steps:

Convert picocoulombs to coulombs: $1 \, \text{pC} = 1 \times 10^{-12} \, \text{C}$ .
Convert coulombs to millicoulombs: $1 \, \text{C} = 10^3 \, \text{mC}$ .

Putting it together: $1 \, \text{pC} = 1 \times 10^{-12} \, \text{C} = 1 \times 10^{-12} \times 10^3 \, \text{mC} = 1 \times 10^{-9} \, \text{mC}$

So, 1 picocoulomb is equal to $10^{-9}$ millicoulombs, or $0.000000001$ millicoulombs.

Real-world Examples of Picocoulombs

Electret Microphones:
- An electret microphone can generate a small electric charge in the range of picocoulombs when it picks up sound vibrations. For instance, it might generate a charge of 50 pC.
Static Electricity from Small Objects:
- If you rub a balloon against your hair, you may create a charge of a few nanocoulombs, which are thousands of picocoulombs.
Biological Processes:
- Certain cellular processes involve the movement of ions that can result in charges in the lower picocoulomb range. For example, neural synapses might produce signals involving charges of around 1 pC.
Capacitor Leakage Currents:
- High-quality capacitors can have leakage currents in the range of picocoulombs per second, exhibiting very low power loss.

Hopefully, this gives you a good understanding of how to convert picocoulombs to millicoulombs and some context on where picocoulomb measurements might come into play in the real world.

See below section for step by step unit conversion with formulas and explanations. Please refer to the table below for a list of all the Millicoulombs to other unit conversions.

What is picocoulombs?

Picocoulombs (pC) is a unit of measurement for electric charge. It's a very small quantity of electricity.

To put it in perspective, here are some comparisons:

A typical lightning bolt can contain around 10-20 kilocoulombs (kC) of electricity.
The human body has a resting membrane potential of about -70 millivolts (mV), which is equivalent to an electric charge of approximately 0.1 picocoulombs (pC).
A single ion, such as a sodium or potassium ion in the human body, carries a charge of around 1-2 picocoulombs.

In everyday life, you won't encounter picocoulombs often, but it's an important unit for scientists and engineers working with electricity, particularly in fields like electronics, physics, and biomedical engineering.

What is millicoulombs?

The unit you are referring to is actually "milli-Coulombs" (mC), not "millicoulombs".

A mill coulomb (mC) is a unit of electric charge in the International System of Units (SI). It represents one-thousandth of a coulomb, which is the basic unit of electric charge.

One milli-Coulomb (mC) is equal to:

0.001 Coulombs
10^-3 C

To put it into perspective, here are some examples of electric charges measured in mill coulombs:

A typical smartphone battery can store around 5-7 mC of charge.
A small capacitor used in electronic devices might have a capacitance value of 1-10 micro-Coulombs (μC), which is 0.001 to 0.01 mC.

The unit of mill coulomb is useful when describing the charge storage capacity of batteries, capacitors, or other devices that handle small amounts of electric charge.

Complete Picocoulombs conversion table

Enter # of Picocoulombs

Convert 1 pC to other units	Result
Picocoulombs to Coulombs (pC to c)	1e-12
Picocoulombs to Millicoulombs (pC to mC)	1e-9
Picocoulombs to Microcoulombs (pC to μC)	0.000001
Picocoulombs to Nanocoulombs (pC to nC)	0.001

Picocoulombs to Millicoulombs conversion