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kinematic viscosity

• In viscosity
  …centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system, called the stokes in Britain and the stoke in the U.S., is named for the British physicist Sir George Gabriel Stokes. The stoke is defined as one centimetre squared per second.
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origin of term

• In Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet
  The stoke (British “stokes”), a unit of kinematic viscosity in the centimetre-gram-second system, was named after him in 1928.
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