: the unit of capacitance equal to the capacitance of a capacitor between whose plates there appears a potential of one volt when it is charged by one coulomb of electricity
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In measurements taken by the UCF researchers, when the flexible solar ribbon was exposed to simulated sunlight, the perovskite solar cell achieved a 10 percent energy conversion ratio and the supercapacitor had a specific capacitance of 1193 farads per gram (F/g).
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IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2016
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IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2016
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farad
noun
far·ad
ˈfa(ə)r-ˌad, ˈfar-əd 
: the unit of capacitance equal to the capacitance of a capacitor between whose plates there appears a potential of one volt when it is charged by one coulomb of electricity
—abbreviation f
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