| Although the faraday, the measure of an electrical charge named after him, has been superseded by the SI unit coulomb, Faraday's name continues to live through the farad. |
| If it takes something the size of a can of tuna to hold a farad, then 10,080 farads is going to take up a LOT more space than a single AA battery! |
| The farad, a measure of a device's capacity to store electric charge, probably doesn't do full justice to his contributions to science. |
| One farad is an extremely large capacitance. |
| Since the farad is far too large for practical purposes a millionth of a farad, or microfarad, whose symbol is mfd., is used. |
| The practical unit of capacity is called the micro-farad, the real unit is the farad, and takes its name from faraday. |
