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Faraday constant

Variant of faraday

noun

a unit of quantity of electricity, used especially in electrolysis, equal to the amount of charge needed to free one mole of a univalent element (c. 96,485 coulombs): abbrev. F
often called Faraday constant

Origin: after Michael Faraday

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