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Carbon and its Compounds
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What constitutes an electric current?

Answer

The flow of electric charges across a cross-section of a conductor constitutes an electric current.

For example, a stream of electrons moving through a conducting wire constitutes an electric current.

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Some More Questions From Carbon and its Compounds Chapter

Which is bigger—a coulomb of charge or a charge on an electron?

Is electric current a scalar quantity or a vector quantity? Give reason.

What is an electric circuit?

When does the current flow in an electric circuit?

How can the current be kept continuous in a conductor?

What is an electrochemical cell or voltaic cell or galvanic cell?

Distinguish between conventional current and electronic current.