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"Biot" is another name for the abampere (aA), which is the basic electromagnetic unit of electric current in the emu-cgs (centimeter-gram-second) system of units. It is called after a French physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot. One abampere is equal to ten amperes in the SI system of units. One abampere is the current, which produces a force of 2 dyne/cm between two infinitively long parallel wires that are 1 cm apart. |
