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- noun Plural form of
coulomb .
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Examples
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It was you who stated the temperature in coulombs.
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It is formally defined as the radiation intensity required to produce and ionization charge of 0.000258 coulombs per kilogram of air.
Radiation units 2009
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Which may be why an electric charge is now measured in “coulombs.”
American Connections James Burke 2007
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Which may be why an electric charge is now measured in “coulombs.”
American Connections James Burke 2007
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The question is to know at every moment the quantity of coulombs produced by the pile.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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The apparatus traces a curve whose ordinates give the number of coulombs sought.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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A battery does 18 joules of work on 3 coulombs of chage.
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A battery does 18 joules of work on 3 coulombs of chage.
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Coulometry is the name given to a group of techniques in analytical chemistry that determine the amount of matter transformed during an electrolysis reaction by measuring the amount of electricity (in coulombs) consumed or produced.
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So by potentializing the external circuit with it in PINNED state momentarily (so that the electrons in the conductors momentarily cannot move as current), one may potentialize the coulombs of pinned charge in the external circuit with static voltage only, and without drawing any current from the primary source.
ZPEnergy.com 2010
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