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A farad is the standard unit used to measure capacitance, which is how much electrical charge something can store. It's named after the English physicist Michael Faraday and is defined as one coulomb of charge per volt of electrical potential.
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- Unit.name
- farad
- Unit.image
- 300px
- Unit.caption
- A 1-farad supercapacitor. The scale behind is in inches (top) and centimetres (bottom).
- Unit.standard
- SI
- Unit.quantity
- capacitance
- Unit.symbol
- F
- Unit.namedafter
- Michael Faraday
- Unit.units1
- SI base units
- Unit.inunits1
- kg−1⋅m−2⋅s4⋅A2
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- Named after
- Michael Faraday
- Image
- OneFarad5.5Velectrolyticcapacitor.jpg
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- derived from base unit
- second
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- measured physical quantity
- capacitance
- conversion to SI unit
- 1
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
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- unit symbol
- F
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- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- Commons category
- Farad
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C42552
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