solid angle, \(\varOmega\), \(\omega\)

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Of a cone, the ratio of the area cut out on a spherical surface (with its centre at the @A00412@ of that cone) to the square of the radius of the sphere. It is a quantity of dimension one (dimensionless quantity) with unit @S05971@ (\(\mathrm{sr}=1\)).
Sources:
Green Book, 2nd ed., p. 11 [Terms] [Book]
PAC, 1996, 68, 957. (Glossary of terms in quantities and units in Clinical Chemistry (IUPAC-IFCC Recommendations 1996)) on page 992 [Terms] [Paper]
Citation: 'solid angle' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 3rd ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2006. Online version 3.0.1, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1351/goldbook.S05732 RIS BibTex EndNote
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