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An electric current produces a combination of three effects. These are the heating effect, the chemical effect, and the magnetic effect.

The unit of measurement of current, the ampere(A), cold be defined in terms of any of these three effects. However, in SI, the ampere is defined in terms of its magnetic effect -i.e. the force of attraction or repulsion created by the magnetic fields surrounding two, parallel, current-carrying conductors. Prior to its present definition, current was defined in terms of its chemical effect -i.e. the amount of silver deposited by electrolysis over a given period of time.

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