In the lab, significant figures tell us which digits in a measurement we truly trust. My instrument, a high-performance liquid chromatograph, allows readings up to four decimal places for concentration. But I only trust the first two decimals, because that's where my calibration standards reliably settle. It's like my chacha's old weighing scale — it shows grams, but we know the true weight is only accurate to the nearest ten.
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