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The SI unit of measurement is the ampere (symbol: A) is defined as, 'the constant current that, if maintained in two straight parallel conductors of infinite length and negligible cross-sectional area and placed one metre apart in a vacuum, would produce between them a force equal to 2 × 10-7 newtons per unit length'.

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An electric current is a flow of charge.

The ampere - the unit of current - is defined as the current that when flowing in straight parallel wires of infinite length and negligible cross section, separated by a distance of one meter in free space, produces a force between the wires of 2 × 10^-7 newtons per meter of length.

Hence the unit of current is related to an effect of current flow.

SI redefines the ampere as a flow of 1 International Coulomb of charge per second, but this is not the original definition and the two units are NOT equal.

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