Femtocoulomb

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-002227",
  "term": "Femtocoulomb",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A unit of electric charge equal to 10^-15 coulomb, which corresponds to about 6,240 elementary charges. A single electron carries about 0.00016 femtocoulomb, or 0.16 attocoulomb. Femtocoulomb quantities occur in the charge stored on tiny capacitors, such as a one femtofarad capacitor charged to one volt, and in the signals of sensitive charge detectors.",
  "synonyms": [
    "fC"
  ],
  "subject": "Metrology and inspection",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Femtocoulomb",
    "es": "femtocoulomb",
    "fr": "femtocoulomb"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/femtocoulomb/"
}