clarke
n. countablen. a unit of measure for electrical charge. It is named after a famous scientist, but it is very rare to see this word used today compared to the standard unit, the coulomb.
n. a unit of electrical charge equivalent to the faraday, based on the electrochemical equivalent of an element. This term is largely obsolete in modern SI-based physics and chemistry.
The scientist calculated the charge in Clarke units.
In some nineteenth-century scientific texts, researchers used the Clarke as a standard measure before the international adoption of the coulomb.
Historical analysis of electrochemical experiments reveals that the Clarke was once a competing unit of charge, though it eventually fell out of favor as electrical standards became globally synchronized.
From Clark, from Old English clerc (“cleric, clerk”).
Usually capitalized as it is derived from a proper name; primarily found in historical scientific literature.