How to Use nanogram in a Sentence

nanogram

noun

• If inhaled, the lethal dose is in the tens of nanograms per kilogram of body weight.
  — Vera Thoss, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2018
• One was for 15 nanograms over the limit and the other was for 40 grams over the limit.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 14 Nov. 2019
• Some of the antibodies are active in the IC50 in the low nanogram range.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• If inhaled, the lethal dose is in the tens of nanograms per kilogram of bodyweight.
  — Vera Thoss, Smithsonian, 15 Mar. 2018
• Fentanyl can be lethal in adults in as little as 3 or 4 nanograms.
  — Beth Kassab, OrlandoSentinel.com, 27 July 2017
• Three or four nanograms per milliliter can be lethal to adults.
  — Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• There are 1 million nanograms (ng) in one milligram (mg).
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 27 Dec. 2019
• Autopsy blood tests have shown nanograms per millileter levels of over 100.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2019
• Jackson County Detective Tom Baker said that the lethal amount for an adult is 100 nanograms.
  — Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2018
• The botulinum toxin is one of the most poisonous natural substances known; a dose of just 1 nanogram per kilogram weight is lethal.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2023
• In the organic, bovine growth hormones, or bGH, residue levels were found to be 0.5 nanograms per milliliter.
  — Rebekah Tuchscherer, USA TODAY, 26 June 2019
• For all four, systemic concentrations passed the nanogram threshold after the applications on the first day of the study.
  — Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times, 10 June 2019
• In the study, men had to have testosterone levels that were below a normal level of 300 nanograms per deciliter to participate.
  — Matthew Herper Reprints, STAT, 16 June 2023
• The lab recorded levels of tramadol at 254 nanograms per milliliter.
  — Tegan Hanlon, Alaska Dispatch News, 27 Oct. 2017
• By the following Tuesday, my blood test was processed, showing that my testosterone level is 594 nanograms per deciliter.
  — Andrew Zaleski, Men's Health, 20 Feb. 2023
• To no one's surprise, my level—28 ng/ml (nanograms per milliliter)—was unacceptable by the standards of most doctors, who prefer to see levels higher than 30.
  — Danielle Stein, Town & Country, 17 July 2013
• Some of the tanks contained small amounts of cocaine—20 nanograms per liter, which corresponds to the mean concentration of the drug that has been detected in surface waters—and some were filled with tap water.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 20 June 2018
• In most cases, prostate cancer is slow-growing, and a PSA level of less than 4 nanograms per milliliter of blood is considered within the range of normal.
  — New York Times, 24 Feb. 2020
• According to Leeper, 3 nanograms per milliliter of blood would be deadly.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 14 July 2023
• Normally, there should be no detectable troponin, or a very low level—below 0.04 nanograms per milliliter (ng/ml) in your blood.
  — Heidi Moawad, Md, Verywell Health, 3 July 2023
• For example, a normal level is less than 25 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) for someone who is not pregnant.
  — Lambeth Hochwald, Parents, 7 Jan. 2024
• If there’s more than half a nanogram of a chemical per milliliter of blood plasma, the FDA says that chemical must be tested for possible health effects.
  — oregonlive, 21 Jan. 2020
• In contrast, a fishmeal from Peru had just 16 nanograms of antibiotics per gram of food, but carried a disturbing 41 resistance genes.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• The toxicology report shows Garcia had 15 nanograms per milliliter of methadone in his system, Clark said.
  — Michael Todd, The Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2017
• The Impossible Whopper, Stangle concludes, has 44 milligrams of estrogen compared to just 2.5 nanograms in the beef Whopper.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 Dec. 2019
• In most women my age, the concentration of androstenedione, a precursor to testosterone, is between thirty and two hundred and eighty-five nanograms per decilitre.
  — S. C. Cornell, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2023
• The National Institutes of Health says that about 20 nanograms per milliliter of vitamin D is sufficient for healthy humans.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 12 Apr. 2017
• For example, the botulinum toxins, the most toxic substances ever discovered, can kill with just a few nanograms per kilogram of body weight if injected into veins or muscles.
  — Vera Thoss, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2018
• The indictment filed Wednesday states Keese was driving under a suspension and had 50 nanograms or more of cocaine metabolite per milliliter of his whole blood, blood serum or plasma.
  — Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati.com, 26 Feb. 2020
• In contrast, Eleanor and Lorena’s relationship feels slapdash and underwritten, with Anderson and Rabe sharing less than a nanogram of chemistry.
  — Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024