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How many electrons pass through a wire each second when the current is one ampere?

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When a current of one ampere flows through a wire, it represents the movement of one coulomb of electric charge per second.12

Because the elementary charge of a single electron is approximately $1.602 \times 10^{- 19}$ coulombs, a flow of one ampere corresponds to approximately $6.24 \times 10^{18}$ electrons passing a given point in the wire each second.324