sthène
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The sthène (; symbol sn), sometimes spelled (or misspelled) sthéne or sthene (from ), is an obsolete unit of force or thrust in the metre–tonne–second system of units (mts) introduced in France in 1919. When proposed by the British Association in 1876, it was called the funal, but the name was changed by 1914. The mts system was abandoned in favour of the mks system and has now been superseded by the International System of Units.
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Vinony files it under Metre–tonne–second system of units, Non-SI metric units and Obsolete units of measurement.
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Key facts
- Unit.name
- sthène
- Unit.standard
- Metre–tonne–second system of units
- Unit.quantity
- Force
- Unit.symbol
- sn
- Unit.units1
- MTS base units
- Unit.inunits1
- 1 t⋅m/s2
- Unit.units2
- SI units
- Unit.inunits2
- 1 kN
- Unit.units3
- British Gravitational System
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Wikidata facts
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- described by source
- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
- conversion to SI unit
- 1000
- measured physical quantity
- force
- unit symbol
- сн
- Wikidata SPARQL query equivalent
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The sthène (; symbol sn), sometimes spelled (or misspelled) sthéne or sthene (from ), is an obsolete unit of force or thrust in the metre–tonne–second system of units (mts) introduced in France in 1919. When proposed by the British Association in 1876, it was called the funal, but the name was changed by 1914. The mts system was abandoned in favour of the mks system and has now been superseded by the International System of Units. {| |- |rowspan=4 valign=top|1 sthène |= 1 kilonewton |- |≈ |- |≈ |- |≈ |}
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “sthène” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.