 As a unit of resistance, the international ohm, which is based upon the ohm equal to 10" units of resistance of the CGS system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury...  Nature - Page 120edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Institute of Physics and the Physical Society - Physics - 1895 - 768 pages
...Friction of water. Electrical. 4-186 x107 4-198 X107 778 780 1894. and Gannon. Electrical. 4-192x10' 779 " 4. That the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury of a constant cross sectional area of one square millimetre and of a. length of 106'3 centimetres,... | |
 | United States. National Bureau of Standards - Calibration - 1968 - 512 pages
...of resistance of the centimeter-gram-second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand five hundred and twenty-one ten-thousandths grams in mass, of a constant... | |
 | Chester Hall Page, Paul Vigoureux - Metric system - 1975 - 268 pages
...another system called "International System,"i based on two material standards: the international ohm, the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury of a mass of 14.4521 grams, of a constant cross section and of a length of 106.300 centimetres, at... | |
 | Physics - 1895 - 598 pages
...1890, was presented in Ju'y 1891, and contained the following recommen- > dations among others : — " 4. That the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury of a constant cross sectional area of one square millimetre and of a length of 106'3 centimetres, at... | |
 | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) - Academies and institutes - 1883 - 798 pages
...centimeter-grani-second system of electro-magnetic units, and is represented by the resistance ottered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice fourteen and four thousand tivo hundred and twenty-one 7 ten-thousandths grams in mass, of a constant... | |
 | Alice Teichova, Maurice Lévy-Leboyer, Helga Nussbaum - Business & Economics - 2002 - 266 pages
...held in Chicago resolved that the unit of resistance was the 'international ohm'. It was defined as the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current...column of mercury at the temperature of melting ice, 14.4211 g in mass, and of a length of 106.3cm. 20 Fundamental measurement of electrical magnitudes... | |
 | E. B. Meyer - Technology & Engineering - 2003 - 330 pages
...equal to 10¿ units of resistance of the cgs system of electromagnetic units, and is represented by the resistance offered to an unvarying electric current by a column of mercury at a temperature of melting ice, 14.4521 grams in mass, of a constant cross-sectional area, and of the... | |
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