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Faraday cup

metal (conductive) cup designed to catch charged particles in vacuum
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Faraday cup

Summary

Faraday cup ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (80 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • Faraday cup's image is recorded as Faraday cup.jpg[2].
  • Michael Faraday is named after Faraday cup[3].
  • Faraday cup's subclass of is recorded as ion detector[4].
  • Faraday cup's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05w33_[5].
  • Faraday cup's described by source is recorded as Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[6].
  • Faraday cup's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/Faraday-cup[7].
  • Faraday cup's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MeasurementDevice", "FaradayCup"][8].
  • Faraday cup's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 180541544[9].
  • Faraday cup's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C180541544[10].

Why It Matters

Faraday cup ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (80 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Related Entities

Michael Faraday

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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