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Also known as Mx

compound derived CGS unit of magnetic flux; equals 10 nanowebers

Key facts

Unit system
Gaussian units
Unit of
magnetic flux
Symbol
Mx
Named after
James Clerk Maxwell
Derivation
1 G ⋅cm
Gaussian base units
1 cm ⋅ g ⋅ s
Si units
≘ 10 Wb

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Encyclopedic overview

The maxwell (symbol: Mx) is the CGS (centimetre–gram–second) unit of magnetic flux (Φ).

History

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “maxwell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.