Not to be confused with Jane Austen’s famous character, the unit darcy goes back to a French engineer, as Stefanie Reichert explains.
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Reichert, S. Dijon’s Mr Darcy. Nat. Phys. 19, 918 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02079-3
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