coulomb or coulombs may refer to: * charles-augustin de coulomb (1736â1806), french physicist, also: ** coulomb, a unit of electric charge ** coulomb's law, in electrostatics ** coulomb blockade, an increased resistance of certain electronic devices ** coulomb barrier, the energy barrier that two nuclei need to overcome to undergo nuclear fusion ** coulomb collision, a collision between two particles when the force between them is given by coulomb's law ** coulomb damping, a type of constant mechanical damping ** coulomb explosion, a mechanism of laser vaporization ** coulomb friction, a friction model which is not proportional to velocity and depends only on the direction of movement ** coulomb operator, a quantum mechanical operator used in quantum chemistry ** coulomb stress transfer, an interaction criterion important in the study of earthquakes ** mohrâcoulomb theory, a mathematical model describing the response of certain materials to stresses ** coulomb (crater), a lunar crater * coulomb family, a family of french naval architects, amongst whom: ** franÃ§ois coulomb the younger (1691â1751) ** joseph-marie-blaise coulomb, (1728â1803) * jean coulomb (1904â1999), french mathematician, geophysicist and scientific administrator * coulomb affair, a conflict between emma and alexis coulomb, on one side, and helena blavatsky and the theosophical society, on the other == places == * coulombs, calvados, a commune in basse-normandie, france * coulombs, eure-et-loir, a commune in central france * coulombs-en-valois, a commune in the seine-et-marne dÃ©partement, france * saint-coulomb, a commune in brittany, france == other == * coulomb technologies  == see also == * colombo (surname)  
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