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farad(dictionary)

pyrrolidine (iou) and farad (medicine)


pyrrolidine (iou)



pyrrolidine noun. L19.
[from PYRROLE + -IDINE.]
Chemistry. A weakly basic pungent liquid, C4H8NH, which is a saturated heterocyclic compound obtained by catalytic reduction of pyrrole; any substituted derivative of this.

farad (medicine)


farad
<physics> The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electromotive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electromotive force of one volt.

Origin: From Michael Faraday, the English electrician.

Source: Websters Dictionary