square centimeter
Noun
Meaning
square centimeter (plural square centimeters)
(American spelling) A unit of area equal to that of a square of sides 1 centimeter.
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About 65 billion (main) solar neutrinos per second pass through every square centimeter perpendicular to the direction of the Sun in the region of the Earth. citation Neutrinos oscillate between different flavors in flight.
Intensities can be very high; above 10 watts per square centimeter, cavitation can be inducted in liquid media, and some applications use up to 1000 watts per square centimeter.
Detection (of WIMPS or Axions) If dark matter is made up of WIMPs, then millions, possibly billions, of WIMPs must pass through every square centimeter of the Earth each second. citation citation citation Many experiments aim to test this hypothesis.
For example, the police department card-readers in The Caves of Steel have a capacity of only a few kilobytes per square centimeter of storage medium.
Power density is measured in terms of power per unit area, for example, milliwatts per square centimeter (mW/cm²).
Some high performance permanent PSAs exhibit high adhesion values and can support kilograms of weight per square centimeter of contact area, even at elevated temperatures.