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Language:enStatus: Obsolete
Term: electric charge
Synonym1: quantity of electricity (obsolete)
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Symbol: Q
Definition: additive scalar quantity, associated with elementary particles and with macroscopic matter that characterizes their electromagnetic interactions

NOTE 1 – Electric charge is subject to a conservation law.

NOTE 2 – Electric charges obey Coulomb's law.


Publication date:1998-08
Source111-13-43
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Internal notes:2019-05-03: Editorial correction: replace "the Coulomb law" by "Coulomb's law". JGO
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