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Electricity is measured by amperes, not by counting electrons. And of course, different circuits have different numbers of amperes moving through them anyway. However, for a very rough estimate, there would normally be something on the order of a trillion trillion electrons involved in a normal electric current. Individual electrons are very small and very numerous.

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