the unit of measurement
41Finsen unit — (FU) a unit formerly used in medicine to measure the intensity of the ultraviolet light used in various medical treatments. Ultraviolet radiation of the standard wavelength 296.7 nanometers has intensity 1 Finsen unit if its energy density is… …
42gas permeation unit — (GPU) a CGS unit of gas permeance for membranes, contact lenses, and similar thin materials. Permeance is defined to be the gas flow rate through the material, per unit of area and per unit of pressure difference across the material. The unit… …
43Carnegie unit — a unit of academic credit used in college admissions decisions in the U.S. The unit was introduced by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in 1914 to provide colleges with a standard measure of students course work in high… …
44Celsius heat unit — (Chu) a unit of heat energy equal to the energy required to raise the temperature of one pound of water by 1°C at standard atmospheric pressure. 1 Chu is equal to exactly 1.8 Btu, approximately 453.59 IT calories (see above), or 1.8991… …
45Hounsfield unit — (HU) a unit used in medical imaging (CT or MRI scanning) to describe the amount of x ray attenuation of each voxel (volume element) in the three dimensional image. The voxels are normally represented as 12 bit binary numbers, and therefore… …
46Bubnoff unit — (B) a unit used in geology to measure erosion rates. One Bubnoff unit is equalto the removal of one micrometer per year (µm/a), or one millimeterper thousand years, or one meter per million years (m/Ma). First proposedin 1968, the unit is… …
47fibrin unit — (FU) a unit of potency for nattokinase, an enzyme that reduces the viscosity of blood and reduces its tendency to clot. The enzyme was discovered in natto, a traditional cheese like Japanese food made from a fermented soybean mash. The unit …
48open window unit — (owu) the original name of the unit of sound absorption now called the sabin …
49The Clouds — This article is about the play by Aristophanes. For other uses, see Cloud (disambiguation). The Clouds Strepsiades, his son and Socrates (from a 16th Century engraving). The Dramatis Personae in ancient comedy depends on interpretation of textual …
50Demographics of the Municipality of Strathfield — The following are a variety of statistics for the Local Government Area (LGA) of Strathfield. Contents 1 Summary 2 Overseas born residents birthplace 3 Religion 4 Crime …
