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title: "List of things named after Michael Faraday"
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Here is a list of things named in honour of scientist Michael Faraday:


== Science ==
Faraday (unit), or just faraday – An obsolete unit of charge that has been superseded by the coulomb
farad, SI unit of capacitance
Faraday balance – Device for measuring magnetism of an object
Faraday cage – Enclosure of conductive mesh used to block electric fields
Faraday constant – The amount of electric charge per mole of electrons
Faraday cup – Charged particle catcher
Faraday cup electrometer – Form of an electrical aerosol instrument used in aerosol studies
Faraday dark space – The dark area in front of a cathode in a vacuum tube
Homopolar generator, aka Faraday disc or Faraday wheel
Faraday effect – Physical magneto-optical phenomenon
Faraday filter, aka atomic line filter – Optical band-pass filter used in the physical sciences
Inverse Faraday effect – Magnetization by polarized light
Faraday rotation (see Faraday effect)
Faraday efficiency – Efficiency of charge transfer in an electrochemical reaction
Faraday-efficiency effect – Cause of data interpretation errors in electrochemistry
Faraday flashlight, aka mechanically powered flashlight
Faraday's ice pail experiment
Faraday Institute for Science and Religion – Research institute in the UK
The Faraday Institution – Nonprofit organization in Didcot, United Kingdom
Faraday's laws of electrolysis
Faraday's law of induction
Maxwell–Faraday equation
Faraday paradox (electromagnetism)
Faraday paradox (electrochemistry)
Faraday rotator
Faraday tensor, aka electromagnetic tensor – Mathematical object that describes the electromagnetic field in spacetime
Electromagnetic tensor – Mathematical object that describes the electromagnetic field in spacetime
Faraday wave – Ripples on liquid within a vibrating receptacle


== Places ==
Faraday building – The first telephone exchange to open in London, later the first International Switching Centre
Faraday Building, Manchester
The Faraday lecture theatre inside the Faraday Building at Lancaster University in Lancashire, England
Faraday Research Station – A former British research station in Antarctica, now called Vernadsky Research Base and operated by Ukraine
Faraday Road – A road in Penang, Malaysia
Faraday (ward) – An electoral ward in the London Borough of Southwark
Faraday Dam – A dam on the Clackamas River in the U.S. state of Oregon
Faraday House – One of the buildings at the headquarters of Vodafone, a telecommunications company in Newbury, Berkshire
Mount Faraday in New Zealand's Paparoa Range


== Others ==
CS Faraday (1874) – A Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1874
CS Faraday (1923) – A Siemens AG cable ship launched in 1923
Faraday (crater) – A lunar impact crater
37582 Faraday – A main-belt asteroid
Faraday Future – electric car company
Faradaya – A genus of flowering plants
Oxera splendida – A species of vine formerly known as Faradaya splendida


== See also ==
All pages with titles containing Faraday
Faraday (disambiguation)
Faraday Prize (disambiguation)


== References ==