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Low-loss polypropylene capacitors are used for top-tier transparency, alongside low-inductance resistors.
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Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
As a teenager in the 1980s, my initial love of technology came from watching films like Back to the Future, where the infamous Doc Brown had the ingenuity to craft the flux capacitor, which made time travel possible.
—Michael Hicks, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
The process starts with solar panels that collect and store energy in capacitors.
—New Atlas, 5 Oct. 2024
The action cuts to a pit mine where workers using hand tools extract coltan (columbite-tantalite), a mineral used to create the tantalum capacitors that power devices like our mobile phones, personal computers, and cameras.
—Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
As a teenager in the 1980s, my initial love of technology came from watching films like Back to the Future, where the infamous Doc Brown had the ingenuity to craft the flux capacitor, which made time travel possible.
—Michael Hicks, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
The process starts with solar panels that collect and store energy in capacitors.
—New Atlas, 5 Oct. 2024
The action cuts to a pit mine where workers using hand tools extract coltan (columbite-tantalite), a mineral used to create the tantalum capacitors that power devices like our mobile phones, personal computers, and cameras.
—Ruby Thélot, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2024
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“Capacitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capacitor. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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capacitor
noun
ca·pac·i·tor
kə-ˈpas-ət-ər 
: a device for storing electric charge
called also condenser
Medical Definition
capacitor
noun
ca·pac·i·tor
kə-ˈpas-ət-ər
: a device giving capacitance and usually consisting of conducting plates or foils separated by thin layers of dielectric (as air or mica) with the plates on opposite sides of the dielectric layers oppositely charged by a source of voltage and the electrical energy of the charged system stored in the polarized dielectric
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