HV
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HV or Hv may stand for:
- Burkina Faso, WMO country code (from the former French name, "Haute Volta")
- High Voltage
- Home Video
- Hudson Valley
- Heimevernet, the Norwegian home guard.
- Transavia, IATA airline code
- In physics and chemistry, hν is the formula for a photon's energy in reactions, e.g.
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- 2 H2O2 + hν → 2 H2O + O2
- h = Planck's constant (in J·s)
- ν or f = Frequency (in Hz)
- Note that ν here is actually the greek letter nu, not the latin letter v.
- 2 H2O2 + hν → 2 H2O + O2
- Vickers Hardness, a hardness test.