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Capacitor conversion chart

- a capacitor conversion chart or table to convert capacitor values between picofarads (pF), nanofarads (nF), and microfarads (uF)

Capacitors are available in an enormous range of values. The smallest capacitors used in electronics circuit designs may be only a picofarad or so, whereas the highest value capacitors that are commonly used may be as large as a few hundred or thousand microfarads.

This is a range of over 10⁹. To prevent confusion with large numbers of zeros attached to the values of the different capacitors the common prefixes pico (10^-12), nano (10^-9) and micro (10^-6 are widely used. When converting between these it is sometimes useful to have a capacitor conversion chart or table for the different capacitor values.

Capacitor conversion table for picoFarads, nanoFarads, and microFarads

microfarads (µF)	Nanofarads (nF)	Picofarads (pF)
0.000001	0.001	1
0.00001	0.01	10
0.0001	0.1	100
0.001	1	1000
0.01	10	10000
0.1	100	100000
1	1000	1000000
10	10000	10000000
100	100000	100000000