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Agree with macmet: centistokes

Patricia Lougheed

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Notice the lower case 'c' for centi, and the upper case 'S', for Stokes, which, being a name, is capitalized.

m, for meter is lower case, for example, but units named after a person are upper case:

Amps
Watts
Celsius
Stokes
etc etc

 
If cSs is plural for centi-Stokes, the folks should not have used an s at the end to pluralize units unless spelled out.
 

The SI unit for kinematic viscosity is m2 s-1.
1 m2 s-1 = 106 cSt.
 
Thanks Gull and 25362. Seems to me that there is a plethora of viscosity units!!

poise
Stokes
Saybolt
m2/s
pascal second

Me thinks if there was this many different units for voltage we'd all still be driving horses.
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Keith Cress
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itsmoked,

You are right on your comment. However, let's not forget that Poises and Pa s are absolute (dynamic) viscosity units
Stokes and m2/s, which can be somehow related to Engler, Redwood, Saybolt, etc., are kinematic viscosity units.

 
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