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Unit of luminance
Answer for the clue "Unit of luminance ", 5 letters:
stilb
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The stilb ( sb ) is the CGS unit of luminance for objects that are not self-luminous. It is equal to one candela per square centimeter or 10 nits (candelas per square meter). The name was coined by the French physicist André Blondel around 1920. It comes ...
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n. (context physics English) a unit of luminance equal to one candela per square centimetre
Usage examples of stilb.
Her eyes were still fixed unseeingby on the barren table top, where the cards had been until now, as though she could stilb see them.