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If you were measuring the amount of electric current in a wire, what SI base unit would you use?​

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Ampere.

The ampere (A) is a basic SI unit of electric current. It can be defined as the amount of electric charge or number of electrons that pass a point in a circuit in one second. One ampere equals 6.241*1018 electrons passing a point per second or one coulomb per second.
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