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
Epoxy the ratio of the amount of substance of epoxide groups, "n"(EP), and the mass "m"(B) of the material B, with the SI unit "mol/kg", or the so-called "epoxide equivalent weight", which is the ratio of the mass of a sample B of the resin and the amount of substance of epoxide groups present in that sample B, with the SI unit "kg/mol". The so-called "epoxide equivalent weight" is simply the inverse of the so-called "epoxide number". The specific amount of substance of epoxide groups is used to calculate the mass of co-reactant (hardener) to use when curing epoxy resins. Epoxies