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Millikan is a new and shorter name for the elementary charge unit:
: [q] = '''e''' = '''Mi'''
whereby
:1 '''Mi''' = 1.6E-19 '''C'''


The introduction of the Millikan became necessary because:
# the elementary charge unit lacks official status
# the elementary charge unit however is widely used in the MS comunity
# the former concept for avoiding the elementary charge unit based on the dimensionless [[m/z]] is based on a missconception
The unit has its name from Robert Millikan who first measured the elemental charge '''e'''
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millikan] Robert Millikan
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