>>>>> On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:13:53 -0800, James Holton <[log in to unmask]> said:
> should we call it? I nominate the "Born" after Max Born who did
> so much fundamental and far-reaching work on the nature of
> disorder in crystal lattices. The unit then has the symbol "B",
> which will make it easy to say that the B factor was "80 B". This
There is already the unit "barn" (b) for area - about the cross section
of an uranium nucleus, it is 1E-8 A^2 (100 fm^2).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barn_%28unit%29
So a Born would be somewhat more than a Megabarn.
-Christoph
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