Definitions
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 ofelectricity required todeposit orliberate 1gram equivalent weight of asubstance duringelectrolysis ; approximately - 96,487coulombs .
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
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Another achievement that gives Faraday scientific recognition is that he is the only scientist who has two internationally used units of measurement named after him, the faraday, which is a unit of electrical quantity, and the farad, which is a unit of capacitance.
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Other units include the "faraday" and the "henry", so you'll understand this is an honor given to few.
The Greatest Hacker of All Time, by N. Small (Nikola Tesla) 1987
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Working from insulated buckets or helicopters to avoid any risk of ground contact and wearing faraday suits—actual metal clothing—the linemen connected themselves directly to the high-voltage wire itself.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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Hey a girl can hope faraday (11/4/2008 2: 17: 53 AM)
Watch Paramore’s ‘Twilight’ Music Video ‘Decode’! » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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Working from insulated buckets or helicopters to avoid any risk of ground contact and wearing faraday suits—actual metal clothing—the linemen connected themselves directly to the high-voltage wire itself.
The Burning Wire Jeffery Deaver 2010
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You'll never believe this, but it was the first attempt to form a uniform event horizon contained in a faraday collar. they peed on themselves and shut it down .
Weird Giant Spiral Seen in Sky over Norway | Universe Today 2009
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Assuming they did what faraday suggested I figure there are 2 good possible reasons why they showed it to us.
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I'd be interested to see if faraday "bucks" time and shoots at the bomb anyways.
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I'm a fan of this user permalink i'm so over faraday - at least the actor - he whispers everthing - i don't know why other characters aren't going "what?" all the time. last night when he told richard he loved the redhead (who i've never liked) - she was supposed to have heard what he said.
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I think that all theaters should have a copper mesh faraday cage built into the walls around them.
RunPee Bathroom Break Tool Releases iPhone App | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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