Electric current Electric current 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 an ionised gas (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. Electric current is measured using a device called an ammeter. Electric currents cause Joule heating, which creates light in incandescent light bulbs. They
Atomic mass unit names for the same unit of measure. As with other unit names such as watt and newton, "dalton" is not capitalized in English, but its symbol, Da, is capitalized. With the introduction of the name "dalton", there has been a gradual change towards using that name in preference to the name, "unified atomic mass unit": The former definition of the mole, an SI base unit, was accepted by the CGPM in 1971 as: However, the first part of this definition was changed in 2018 to: One consequence of this change is that the current defined relationship between the mass of