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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A measure of the electric charge carried by one mole of electrons, used in electrolysis as the quantity of charge required to deposit or liberate one gram equivalent weight of a substance, approximately 9.6494 × 104 coulombs.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Elec.) the quantity of electric charge that, passed though an ionic solution, will cause electrolysis of one equivalent of ions; it is equal to about 96,490 coulombs. The number of univalent metal ions (such as silver in a silver nitrate solution) which would be deposited as free metal by such a current is Avogadro's number, 6.023 x 1023.

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  • noun chemistry, physics The quantity of electricity required to deposit or liberate 1 gram equivalent weight of a substance during electrolysis; approximately - 96,487 coulombs.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the English physicist and chemist who discovered electromagnetic induction (1791-1867)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Michael Faraday.]

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From Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist.

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