How do you convert picosiemens to ions per second?

Answer 1

I don't think you can convert that, since the units are unrelated. Siemens is a measure of conductance; ions per second is closely related to the electric current.

As Hilmarz said, picosiemens to ions/second is nonconvertible. Additionally, picosieverts to ions/second is also nonconvertible since a sievert is a unit for dose equivalent and depends on several biological variables, which aren't reflected in the unit, "ions/second."

Now, as for the unit, "ions/second," itself, I feel that there are two possibilities as to what that means:

1) You're referring to an ampere, which is a coulomb/sec, coulomb being a unit of electrical charge. In certain materials, ions, as opposed to simply electrons, can be charge carriers, so I can potentially see someone referring to an ampere as an ion/sec. If this is actually what you meant, then the applicable conversion is: siemen = ampere/volt, or ion/(volt*sec) I suppose, and a picosiemen is just 10-12 siemens.

2) However, and this is a stretch, but the question wasplaced in the nuclear physics category after all, picocuriesto disintegrations/sec (a Becquerel), which are both perfectly valid units for radioactivity, have the simple conversion of one 1 picocurie = .037 disintegrations/sec.