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coulombs

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For a power socket, you get up to 16 coulombs per second continuously.

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A surname from French, notably held by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

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noun

A surname from French, notably held by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

noun

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for coulombs.

noun

A surname from French, notably held by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

noun

In the International System of Units, the derived unit of electric charge; the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second. Symbol: C

Example sentences

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For a power socket, you get up to 16 coulombs per second continuously.

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Every single system, even analog ones, because it's all just information flowing through switched systems, even if it's solely measured in something involving coulombs.

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Note that in actual SI, 1 mA⋅h = 3.6 C (coulombs).

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In the middle of the curve, voltages are damn near flat and cease to be an indicator of state-of-charge, so the BMS counts coulombs instead.

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With that shared context, 1/(4*π*ε)*(q_electron * q_proton)/r^2 is going to be a lot easier to see, at a glance, as Coulombs law compared to 1 / (4 * Math.

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So it's not the Amps that get you, but the Coulombs?

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I suppose you could instantiate an "oops all protons" neutron star with a charge of 10^54 coulombs in Universe Sandbox, but I struggle to imagine how that would come to or continue to exist physically.

Quote examples

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I suppose you could instantiate an "oops all protons" neutron star with a charge of 10^54 coulombs in Universe Sandbox, but I struggle to imagine how that would come to or continue to exist physically.

Proper noun examples

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So it's not the Amps that get you, but the Coulombs?

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How do you use coulombs in a sentence?

For a power socket, you get up to 16 coulombs per second continuously.

What does coulombs mean?

A surname from French, notably held by Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.

What part of speech is coulombs?

coulombs is commonly used as noun.