Re: The unit of a "Faraday"

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• Subject: Re: The unit of a "Faraday"
• From: Ed Phillips <evp-at-pacbell-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Sat, 24 Apr 1999 23:12:12 -0600
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Tesla List wrote:
> 
> Original Poster: fprice3 <fprice3-at-acnet-dot-net>
> 
> The faraday is a constant and can be defined as the unit of electrical charge
> carried by an Avogadro's number of unit charges. According to my old but
trusty
> Mechanical Engineer's Handbook (Marks, et al),  its value is 96,500
> Coulombs (only
> approximate, since the exact value depends on the method of measurement).
> The unit
> is used in electro-chemistry technology.
> 
> Federico Price

	What we now call electro-chemistry was one of the areas where Faraday
did pioneering work.  Among other things. he invented the terms anode
and cathode, anion and cation.

Ed

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