Coulomb
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The Coulomb (sometimes written C) the SI unit of electric charge. It is named after Charles-Augustin de Coulomb.
[edit] Definition
1 coulomb is the amount of electric charge carried by a current of 1 ampere flowing for 1 second.
It can also be defined in terms of capacitance and voltage, where one coulomb is defined as one farad of capacitance times one volt of electric potential difference: