What is "amperes"

Usage examples of "amperes".

Faraday generator and supported internal circulating currents of five million amperes with a power dissipation of a thousand billion watts.

It now appears that the unheard-of currents, amounting to millions of amperes, which flowed momentarily in the windings of our generator must have produced a certain extension into four dimensions, for a fraction of a second and in a 7volume large enough to contain a man.

When subjected to an electrical current of 6 amperes, at 100 volts, the viruslike object abruptly emitted small pinpoints of light.

Tom, as he sent out a peal from the gong, and then, he let out a few more amperes, and the speed increased.

His fingers hoped for the amperes of recognition but all he felt was a slick softness, a sense of moisture that perhaps someone else had readied.

And the point is that this gas just provides the flimsiest sort of sponge in the atmosphere, and Vargan knows how to saturate the pores in the sponge with millions of volts and amperes of compressed lightning.

There must have been tens of thousands of volts pulsing invisibly through that section of the secret process, hundreds of amperes of burning annihilation waiting to scorch through the first thing that tapped them with that crackle of blue flame and hiss of intolerable heat which he had seen once and heard again.