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The sizes of micropipettes are available in different volumes ranges from 0.1 µl to 100ml. The commonly used variants of single channel variable volume micropipettes are listed below along with their permissible error limits as specified in the ISO 8655-2 standard.
Sizes of Micropipette:
| Volume Range (ul) |
Classification |
Increment (ul) |
Accuracy (± %) |
Accuracy (±ul) |
CV (± %) |
CV ( ± ul) |
| 0.2-2 | P2 | 0.002 | 2 | 0.04 | 1.2 | 0.024 |
| 0.5-10 | P10 | 0.02 | 1 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.05 |
| 2-20 | P20 | 0.02 | 0.8 | 0.16 | 0.4 | 0.08 |
| 5-50 | P50 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.2 |
| 10-100 | P100 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
| 20-200 | P200 | 0.2 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 |
| 100-1000 | P1000 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 6 | 0.2 | 2 |
| 500-5000 | P5000 | 10.0 | 0.6 | 30 | 0.2 | 10 |
| 1000-10000 | P10000 | 20.0 | 0.6 | 60 | 0.2 | 20 |
