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Udreà.

to make a magnetic flux density unit, a flux density of 10.02 teslas (see appendix, Units of measurement)

Etymology

shortened form, academic loan of
Koi ὑδρεί‑ᾱ ‘irrigation, water supply’, abstract noun of
  Koi ὕδωρ ‘water’, contamination from plural, ‘voiceless’ initial of
SHell *wódr̥
PIE *u̯ódr̥ ‘water’ [inanimate], deverbal noun of
  PIE *u̯ed‑ ‘well, gush’

Like most electromagnetic units, Udreà. uses the electricity is water metaphor. Physicists were running out of letters for unit symbols, which explains the omission of initial x that would be expected here.

See also udreà..