| Since the farad is far too large for practical purposes a millionth of a farad, or microfarad, whose symbol is mfd., is used. |
| The leak should have a very high resistance, usually one or two million ohms if the condenser is about 0.002 microfarad. |
| The farad being inconveniently large for practical use, one-millionth of a farad, called a microfarad, is generally adopted. |
| The condensers used in the above experiment have a capacity of one microfarad, or one millionth of a farad. |
| Thus, these are used for products with digital circuits requiring capacitance of more than 10 microFarad. |
| Then we would say that the condenser had a capacity of one microfarad. |
