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Missing physics topics: Physics terminology

Physics terminology

• Absolute unit - (
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• Activation cross section - (
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• Active neutron assay - (
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• Advancing contact angle - (
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• Aerial gain - (
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• Allechromy - (
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• Allobar - (
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• Anelasticity - (
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• Asymmetry parameter - (
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• Atomic scale - (
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• Base of support - (
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• Bennett hardness scale - (
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• Body-centred, body-centered - (
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• Bound-free absorption - (
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• Breaking point (dynamics) - (
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• Brightness wave - (
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• Buoyancy oscillation - (
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• Buoyancy pressure - (
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• Center of figure - (
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• Centibar - (
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• Centrad - (
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• Characteristic dimension - (
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• Charge decay - (
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• Coherence width - (
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• Colliding plane wave - (
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• Common mode currents common mode current -
• Compact Light Source compact light source - (
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• Compensating phase shift - (
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• Complementary symmetry - (
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• Condensation resistance factor - (
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• Condensation surface - (
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• Condensing power - (
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• Constancy of Interfacial Angles, crystallography - (
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• Coulter volume - (
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• Critical constant - (
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• Critical potential - (
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• Critical volume - (
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• Curvature singularity - (
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• Decimal balance - (
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• Delay time - (
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• Density of states curve - (
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• Differential compound-wound - (
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• Differential pressure - (
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• Dimensional motion times (DMT) - (
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• Dirty beam - (
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• Dispersion parameter - (
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• Dynamic characteristic - (
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• Dynamic stability - (
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• Effective energy, effective wavelength - (
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• Effective resistance - (
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• Effort distance - (
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• Electrogen - (
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• Electron stain - (
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• Electron-dense - (
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• Elemental energy - (
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• Emissive power - (
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• Enantiomorphy - (
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• Energy profile diagram - (
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• Equilibrant - (
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• Equilibrium assemblage - (
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• Equilibrium of forces - (
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• Equivalent positions, equivalent points - (
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• Error of measurement - (
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• Excluded Volume Repulsion - (
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• Exterior solution - (
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• External force - (
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• External work - (
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• Fission to yield ratio - (
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• Free Current Density free current density - (
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• Free vibrations, free oscillations - (
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• Frequency of collision - (
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• Fringing field - (
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• Full radiator - (
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• Gallean transformation - (
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• Gauge unification - (
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• Geometric image - (
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• Geometrical focus - (
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• Gyrodynamics - (
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• Halation - (
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• Hermionics - (
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• Heterogenous strain - (
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• Homogeneous solid - (
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• Homogeneous strain - (
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• Hybrid cubit - (
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• Hysteresis coefficient - (
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• Illumination (physics) - (
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• Indifferent equilibrium - (
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• Inertial man - (
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• Instantaneous axis - (
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• Integration time - (
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• Internal forces - (
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• International candle - (
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• International steam cable calorie - (
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• Ion Activity Product - (
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• Ionic balance - (
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• Isodynamic - (
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• Isogam - (
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• Least energy principle - (
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• Limit of proportionality - (
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• Locally isometric - (
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• Long range influence - (
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• Lookback time - (
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• Luminous quantities luminous quantity - (
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• Lumped parameter - (
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• Mark space ratio - (
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• Master effect - (
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• Mean pressure - (
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• Mean spherical intensity - (
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• Mechanical resistance - (
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• Method of mixtures - (
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• Metre slug - (
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• Mutual coherence function - (
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• Mutual intensity - (
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• Negative principal and nodal points - (
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• Net radiative effect - (
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• Neutral equilibrium - (
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• New candle - (
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• Nonlinear physics - (
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• Non-saturated mode - (
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• Null congruence - (
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• Order of interference, order of diffraction - (
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• Pattern function - (
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• Peak factor - (
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• Permeabililty - (
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• Phase space trajectory - (
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• Photon Transfer Curve photon transfer curve - (
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• Position-Dependent Opacity - (
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• Potential Energy Function Potential energy function- (
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• Potential of zero charge - (
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• Power-law spectrum - (
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• Pressure differential - (
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• Pressure profile - (
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• Principal null congruences Principal null congruence - (
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• Principle of least coupling - (
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• Probability (physics) - (
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• Proportional region - (
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• Proticity - (
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• Pump pressure - (
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• Pump rate - (
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• Quarter phase two-phase - (
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• Radio-opaque contrast - (
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• Radiopague - (
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• Radiosensitive - (
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• Reaction-limited aggregation - (
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• Refractory element - (
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• Relativistic multipole moments Relativistic multipole moment - (
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• Relativistic state - (
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• Resultant tone - (
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• Reversible change - (
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• Scalar wave approximation - (
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• Scattering range - (
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• Selective reflection - (
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• Semistructured model - (
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• Short-term potentiation - (
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• Small-signal parameters - (
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• Solidification curve - (
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• Solution pressure - (
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• Spatial configuration - (
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• Specific reluctance - (
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• Spectroscopic state - (
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• Splintering - (
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• Spot curve - (
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• Squeezed vacuum - (
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• Stable equilibrium - (
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• Static characteristic - (
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• Stationary limit surfaces Stationary limit surface - (
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• Stationary system - (
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• Storage time - (
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• Stress component - (
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• Subprismatic - (
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• Super plastic behaviour - (
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• Superradiant emission - (
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• Tangential force - (
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• Tensile Strain tensile strain - (
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• Terminal distance - (
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• Threshold frequency - (
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• Time base - (
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• Toroidal winding - (
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• Torsional hysteresis - (
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• Total emission - (
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• Transport number - (
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• Triplet representation - (
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• Turns ratio - (
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• Ultimate effect - (
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• Ultramicrobalance - (
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• Unit place - (
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• Unstable equilibrium - (
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• Unstable system - (
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• Vacuum zero - (
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• Viscous damping - (
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• Voidspace void space - (
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• Water equivalent - (
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• Wave field - (
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• Zero-error - (
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• Zeta pinch - (
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Measurements

• Joule equivalent - (
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  ) - Probably just means "equivalent in Joules", but alternatively Joule's equivalent is a redirect to Mechanical equivalent of heat.
• Mean British thermal unit - (
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  ) - The "mean temperature" variant of British thermal unit?
• Microangstrom - (
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  ) - Is this term (for 10⁻¹⁶ m) ever used? It would be considered very non-standard in the SI.
• Microwave noise standard - (
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• Millimeter of water - (
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• Moisture gradient - (
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• Pound per square inch gage - (
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• Pound per square root - (
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