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The end result boasted an open-circuit voltage of 384 millivolts, a short-circuit current density of 1.1 μA/cm2, and a maximum output of 94 nW/cm2.
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Michael Irving, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2024
At rest, neurons keep their insides more negatively charged than their outside environment, maintaining a resting membrane voltage of about −70 millivolts.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
The prototype yielded a stable output voltage of 2.28 millivolts and current of 2.47 nanoamperes at room temperature, though the latter number goes up as temperature rises.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2023
So at rest, they are depolarized in general at about minus 80 millivolts or minus 75 millivolts.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
So there’s an amplitude about 10 millivolts, that changes the voltage.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
Now move the red probe into the longer (neutral) slot to confirm a reading of about .1 millivolts (there is negligible voltage between the outlet’s ground and neutral and the cord's ground and neutral).
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
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Michael Irving, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2024
At rest, neurons keep their insides more negatively charged than their outside environment, maintaining a resting membrane voltage of about −70 millivolts.
—Quanta Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
The prototype yielded a stable output voltage of 2.28 millivolts and current of 2.47 nanoamperes at room temperature, though the latter number goes up as temperature rises.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Oct. 2023
So at rest, they are depolarized in general at about minus 80 millivolts or minus 75 millivolts.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
So there’s an amplitude about 10 millivolts, that changes the voltage.
—Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 12 July 2023
Now move the red probe into the longer (neutral) slot to confirm a reading of about .1 millivolts (there is negligible voltage between the outlet’s ground and neutral and the cord's ground and neutral).
—Joseph Truini, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2019
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millivolt
noun
mil·li·volt
-ˌvōlt 
: one thousandth of a volt
—abbreviation mV
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