Definition:Faraday (Unit)/Conversion Factors

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Faraday: Conversion Factors

\(\ds \) \(\) \(\ds 1\) faraday
\(\ds \) \(\approx\) \(\ds 9 \cdotp 64853 \, 32123 \, 31001 \, 84 \times 10^4\) coulombs per mole: $\mathrm {C \, mol^{-1} }$ \(\quad\) This sequence is A163999 in the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (N. J. A. Sloane (Ed.), 2008).
\(\ds \) \(\approx\) \(\ds 9 \cdotp 64853 \, 32123 \, 31001 \, 84 \times 10^7\) coulombs per kilogram-mole: $\mathrm {C / kg \, mol}$
\(\ds \) \(\approx\) \(\ds 2 \cdotp 89255 \, 33018 \, 664 \times 10^{14}\) statcoulombs per mole: $\mathrm {statC \, mol^{-1} }$




Also known as

The conversion factor $96485 \cdotp 3 \cdots$ is known popularly as the Faraday constant.

It is of course the number of coulombs of electric charge contained in $1$ mole of electrons.


Symbol

$F$

The symbol for the Faraday constant is $F$.


Its $\LaTeX$ code is F .


Sources

which gives the mantissas of these figures as:
$9 \cdotp 648 \, 670$ with an uncertainty of $\pm 54$ corresponding to the $2$ least significant figures
$2 \cdotp 892 \, 599$ with an uncertainty of $\pm 16$ corresponding to the $2$ least significant figures