Convert Square centimetres per minute to Square decimetres per second
Convert Square centimetres per minute (cm²/min) to Square decimetres per second (dm²/s) instantly and accurately.
Conversion Formula
dm²/s = cm²/min × 0.0001666666667
About Square centimetres per minute
The square centimetre per minute (cm²/min) equals ≈1.667 × 10⁻⁶ m²/s, a transitional unit seen in older French and Soviet thermal engineering literature. Some food-science papers on heat penetration into frozen products express diffusivity in cm²/min to keep values close to unity. 1 cm²/min = 1e-4/60 m²/s ≈ 1.667 × 10⁻⁶ m²/s.
About Square decimetres per second
The square decimetre per second (dm²/s) equals exactly 0.01 m²/s, a rarely used but exact-ratio metric unit. It is occasionally encountered in European academic papers on molten metals and liquid semiconductors, where diffusivity values in m²/s are small fractions and dm²/s gives more convenient numeric magnitudes. 1 dm²/s = 1e-2 m²/s = 100 cm²/s.
Quick Reference Table
| Square centimetres per minute (cm²/min) | Square decimetres per second (dm²/s) |
|---|---|
| 1 cm²/min | 0.000166667 dm²/s |
| 2 cm²/min | 0.000333333 dm²/s |
| 5 cm²/min | 0.000833333 dm²/s |
| 10 cm²/min | 0.00166667 dm²/s |
| 25 cm²/min | 0.00416667 dm²/s |
| 50 cm²/min | 0.00833333 dm²/s |
| 100 cm²/min | 0.0166667 dm²/s |