Enzyme unit SI unit, the enzyme unit is discouraged in favour of the katal, the unit recommended by the General Conference on Weights and Measures in 1978 and officially adopted in 1999. One katal is the amount of enzyme that converts 1 mole of substrate per second, so The enzyme unit should not be confused with the international unit (IU); although it is true that both measure chemical activity and that for many enzymes 1 U = 1 IU (because for many enzymes the existing U was adopted as the newer IU), international units can be defined for the biologic activity of
Khai Si Khai Si Khai Si () is a sub-district ("tambon") in Mueang Bueng Kan District, in Bueng Kan Province, northeastern Thailand. As of 2012, it had a population of 5,294 people. It lies on Highway 212 and the Mekong River and border with Laos, west of Bueng Kan and east of Ho Kham. The sub-district was created in 1979, when nine administrative villages were split from Nong Sawang sub-district (then still named Nong Kheng) to form the new sub-district. The sub-district is divided into 10 administrative villages ("muban"). The sub-district municipality Khai Si is the local government unit responsible for the