{"id":495,"date":"2015-05-29T13:28:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/?page_id=495"},"modified":"2015-05-29T13:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:28:32","slug":"capitalisation-and-lowercasing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/pagina-exemple\/abbreviations-and-symbols\/symbols\/capitalisation-and-lowercasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitalisation and lowercasing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Use capital letters for the first letter of symbols that come from people\u2019s names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nBq (becquerel)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nHz (hertz)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nK (kelvin)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nN (newton)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

Symbols that come from common nouns are generally written in lower case and are the same for singular and plural.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\ncd (candela)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\ng (gram)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nkb (kilobit)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nkg (kilogram)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nlm (lumen)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n
\"Small_OK\"<\/a><\/td>\nlx (lux)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

However, remember kilobyte<\/em> (kB<\/em>) (one kilobyte is equal to eight kilobits) and litre<\/em> (L<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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Use capital letters for the first letter of symbols that come from people\u2019s names. Bq (becquerel) Hz (hertz) K (kelvin) N (newton) Symbols that come from common nouns are generally written in lower case and are the same for singular and plural. cd (candela) g (gram) kb (kilobit) kg (kilogram) lm (lumen) lx (lux) However, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"parent":443,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-495","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/495\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/manualdestilinteruniversitari\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}