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zeptojoule en · NOUN

Etymology

From zepto- + joule.

Meanings

1. An SI unit of energy equal to 10⁻²¹ joules. Symbol: zJ
   • However, with zeptojoule scale switching energies and novel functionality, the BiSFET could add a substantial amount of road! 2015, Tsu-Jae King Liu, Kelin Kuhn, CMOS and Beyond, page 204:
   • When a bundle with a drag coefficient of 200 nN · sec · m⁻¹ (Howard and Hudspeth, 1988) produced a 25 nm, triangle-wave twitch 5 msec in total duration (Fig. 12A), the energy dissipated against viscous drag was ~100 zJ (a zeptojoule is 10⁻²¹ J). 1996 September 15, Michael E. Benser, Robert E. Marquis, A. J. Hudspeth, “Rapid, Active Hair Bundle Movements in Hair Cells from the Bullfrog's Sacculus”, in The Journal of Neuroscience, 16(18), p. 5638:
   • The associated work is W = 38.5 nm² × (10⁻⁹m/nm)² 35 pN/μm (10⁻¹² N/pN) (μm/10⁻⁶ m) = 1.35 × 10⁻²¹ J or about one zeptojoule. 2012, Christopher R. Jacobs, Hayden Huang, Ronald Y. Kwon, Introduction to Cell Mechanics and Mechanobiology, page 327:

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Deriveds

zJ

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