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Uncommon card · Science
Oil drop experiment, an Uncommon card
The oil drop experiment was performed by Robert A. Millikan and Harvey Fletcher in 1909 to measure the elementary electric charge.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 116
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 49,000
Ranked #2,202 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The experiment took place in the Ryerson Physical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.
- Millikan received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923.
- The experiment observed tiny electrically charged droplets of oil located between two parallel metal surfaces, forming the plates of a capacitor.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Oil drop experiment article was read about 49,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Oil drop experiment (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
