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Electrical currentUnits Type

An electric current is a flow of electric charge. In electric circuits this charge is often carried by moving electrons in a wire. It can also be carried by ions in an electrolyte, or by both ions and electrons such as in a plasma. The SI unit for measuring an electric current is the ampere, which is the flow of electric charge across a surface at the rate of one coulomb per second. [Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_current]

Term

electricalCurrent

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Base Quantity

Provenance

QUDT

Provenance Uri

http://qudt.org/vocab/quantity#ElectricCurrent

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Default Unit

ampere (A) = Coulombs per second

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I1

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Dimension Temperature

1

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