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Look up: Carcel

  1. carcel
    2.a French photometric unti equal to 9.5 candlepower Category: Physics
    Found on http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/definition

  2. Carcel
    Car'cel noun (Photom.) A light standard much used in France, being the light from a Carcel lamp of stated size and construction consuming 42 grams of colza oil per hour with a flame 40 millimeters in height. Its illuminating power is variously stated at from 8.9 to 9.6 British standard candles.
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/24

  3. Carcel
    • (n.) A light standard much used in France, being the light from a Carcel lamp of stated size and construction consuming 42 grams of colza oil per hour with a flame 40 millimeters in height. Its illuminating power is variously stated at from 8.9 to 9.6 British standard candles.
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  4. carcel
    a former French unit for measuring the intensity of light. The unit was defined as the intensity of a standard Carcel lamp, which burnt colza oil in a precisely defined way. One carcel equals about 9.74 candelas (see above).
    Found on http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictC.

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