Faraday

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  faraday \far"a*day\, n. [From Michael Faraday, the English
     electrician.] (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 10^{23}.
     [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Faraday
       n : the English physicist nd chemist who discovered
           electromagnetic induction (1791-1867) [syn: {Michael
           Faraday}]