Enzyme unit many kinds of substance besides enzymes (for example, vitamins and hormones). Enzyme unit The enzyme unit (symbol U or sometimes EU) is a unit for the amount of a particular enzyme. One U is defined as the amount of the enzyme that produces a certain amount of enzymatic activity, that is, the amount that catalyzes the conversion of 1 micro-mole of substrate per minute. The conditions also have to be specified: one usually takes a temperature of 25°C and the pH value and substrate concentration that yield the maximal substrate conversion rate. The enzyme unit was adopted by the International
Epoxy epoxy resins is the epoxide group content. This is correctly expressed as the specific amount of substance of epoxide groups in the material B under consideration, calculated as the ratio of the amount of substance of epoxide groups in this material B, "n"(EP), divided by the mass "m"(B) of the material B under consideration, in this case, the mass of the resin. The SI unit for this quantity is "mol/kg", or multiples thereof. Deprecated quantities which are still in use are the so-called "epoxide number" which is (not a number and should therefore not be referred to as such, but)