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Former French unit for measuring the intensity of light From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The carcel is a former French unit for measuring the intensity of light. The unit was defined in 1860 as the intensity of a Carcel lamp with standard burner and chimney dimensions, which burnt colza oil[1] (obtained from the seed of the plant Brassica campestris) at a rate of 42 grams of colza oil per hour with a flame 40 millimeters in height.[2][3]
In modern terminology, one carcel equals about 9.74 candelas.[1]
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