Preece (unit)

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The Preece , named after the Welsh electrical engineer William Henry Preece , was a unit of resistivity used in Great Britain from 1901 . It was mainly used to determine the specific resistance of insulators .

1 preece = 10 13 ohmmeters

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  • HG Jerrard & DB McNeill: A Dictionary of Scientific Units. Including dimensionless numbers and scales , Chapman and Hall, London / New York, 1986, p. 110.