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Electric Conductivity Converter

Convert electrical conductivity between S/m, mS/m, S/cm, mS/cm, µS/cm, and siemens per foot.

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Enter a value and choose the units. Your answer updates as you type.

Result

1000 Millisiemens per meter (mS/m)

Quick reference
  • Siemens per meter (S/m)1 base units
  • Millisiemens per meter (mS/m)0.001 base units
  • Microsiemens per meter (µS/m)0.000001 base units
  • Siemens per centimeter (S/cm)100 base units
  • Millisiemens per centimeter (mS/cm)0.1 base units
  • Microsiemens per centimeter (µS/cm)0.0001 base units
  • Siemens per foot (S/ft)3.280839895013123 base units

About the Electric Conductivity Converter

Conductivity is the reciprocal of resistivity and characterizes wires, electrolytes, water quality, semiconductor materials, and grounding systems. The converter uses Siemens per meter (S/m) as its SI reference and retains full factor precision while you work, which avoids mixing dimensional prefixes or customary units in technical calculations.

Enter a value to see an immediate result—for example, 1 Millisiemens per meter (mS/m) equals 0.001 Siemens per meter (S/m). For adjacent calculations, the Electric Conductance Converter and Electric Resistivity Converter provide complementary dimensional checks.

Frequently asked questions

What is the SI reference for electric conductivity?

This page uses Siemens per meter (S/m) as the base unit, so every listed factor is a multiplier to that SI quantity.

When is a electric conductivity useful?

Conductivity is the reciprocal of resistivity and characterizes wires, electrolytes, water quality, semiconductor materials, and grounding systems.

Are these electric conductivity factors exact?

SI prefixes and defined international units are represented with their standard factors; customary and CGS values are shown to the precision of their published definitions.

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For a related calculation, use Electrostatic Capacitance Converter to convert electrostatic capacitance between farads, millifarads, microfarads, nanofarads, picofarads, and statfarads. Alternatively, use Electric Conductance Converter to convert electrical conductance between siemens, millisiemens, microsiemens, nanosiemens, and mho.

For the underlying method, read Ohm's Law and Electrical Units Explained.