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Request for: Einstein

Open huberrob opened this issue 2 years ago • 11 comments

Please provide the following a literature reference (or attachment) which provides a scientific definition. A scientific definition is a quantitative one, not just words "unit for the amount of XYZ." A scientific definition will also give some way of converting or inferencing something with the values expressed using that unit. You can include document URLs or drag/drop attachments to accompany your request.

In Biology and Environmental Sciences the 'Einstein' unit is frequently used and is defined and while it is not recommended to be used, a large amount of data still is produced which is using 'Einstein' abbreviated as 'E'. Consequently some large environmental data archives still use this unit .

Definitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_(unit)

Examples are:

  • At vocabulary level: https://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/P06/current/UMES/
  • At dataset level: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.948489

Note the scope of UCUM is science, healthcare, engineering, and business (not including currencies). Units outside this context are discouraged.

Be certain to include the unit in the issue title above.

huberrob avatar Nov 10 '22 09:11 huberrob