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The Word of the Day for Thursday August 21, 2008 is AMPERE ( am per)--the base unit of an electric current. AMPERAGE refers to the power of a current based on the total AMPERES.
Why is that a given amount of amperes will continually blow a fuse on certain day but cause no trouble at all on others?
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