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A capacitor could be two parallel plates close together but unconnected, and then the plates are connected to either side of a battery. Current flowing causes charge to build up on the plates, positive on one plate and negative on the other, until the voltage across the capacitor is equal to the battery voltage. The amount of charge that has flowed in, divided by the voltage, is called the capacitance, measured in Farads.
If the battery was one volt, and the charge was one coulomb (i.e. one amp for one second), then the capacitor has a capacitance of one Farad.
Usually capacitors are measured in microfarads or picofarads.
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