When reading schematics, building or repairing amplifiers and also buying capacitors, you often must convert between uF, nF and pF.
Paper, plastic and electrolytic capacitors are usually expressed in terms of uF (microfarads). Short forms for micro farad include uF, mfd, MFD, MF and UF.
Mica capacitors are usually expressed in terms of pF (micromicrofarads) (picofarads).
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