Here then are four guidelines to make the correct use of these units easier. When written in full, the names of all metric units are entirely lower case. The only exception is Celsius which has an initial capital. Some of the abbreviations for metric units are written with lower case letters, others with upper case letters. Some of the abbreviations for metric prefixes are written with lower case letters, others with upper case letters.
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