Use capital letters for the first letter of symbols that come from people’s names.
Symbols that come from common nouns are generally written in lower case and are the same for singular and plural.
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| 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.
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Universitat de Barcelona. Serveis Lingüístics
Darrera actualització: 15-7-2022
Recommended citation:
«Capitalization and lowercasing» [en línia]. A: Llibre d’estil de la Universitat de Barcelona. Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona. Serveis Lingüístics. <https://www.ub.edu/llibre-estil/criteri.php?id=2372> [consulta: 6 març 2025].
