Answer to Question #93633 in General Chemistry for Matthew Fitts

Question

write a equivalency statement relating candelas and teracondelas.

Answer 1

Candela is one of the seven SI units used to measure light intensity. The luminous intensity of an ordinary candle is approximately equal to one candela, but sometimes there are light sources with values ​​of one million, trillion or more candelas. In such cases, it is convenient to use metric prefix, such as tera (denoting multiplication by 10 ^ 12 or 1000000000000) or mega (10 ^ 6).