Faraday


In physics, the faraday (not to be confused with the farad) is a unit of electrical charge; one faraday is equal to the charge of 6.02 × 10<sup>23</sup> electrons (one mole). The faraday is no longer in general use and has been replaced by the SI unit coulomb; one faraday is approximately equivalent to 96485.3415 coulombs.

The value of a faraday, F, can easily be calculated:

where is Avogadro's number (6.022 mol<sup>-1</sup>) is the elementary charge (1.602 C)

Like the farad, the faraday was named after Michael Faraday.

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