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pixnum said:Can you tell me the difference between capacitor and condenser ?
Thunderchild said:funny i thought it was the other way around just goes to show how equally common the two names are
Thunderchild said:mind you here in Italy the direct translation of condenser is in use there is not other term except for the not so correct capacity word so perhaps that is the source of my bewilderment
pixnum said:The word "capacitor" comes from capacitance and store. The word "condenser" comes from condensation concept.
Condense can also mean concentrated and a capacitor concentrates the charge in a small space.pixnum said:The word "condenser" comes from condensation concept.
I'm I'm guessing that, even after discarding "jar", the Royal Navy still retains "lid" as a unit of measure.pebe said:As a point of interest, the ‘Jar’ was the Imperial unit of capacitance, used by the Royal Navy until the 1950s
See here
https://personal.rhul.ac.uk/UHAP/027/PH2420/PH2420_files/notes/01.pdf