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From: William Beaty [mailto:billb@ESKIMO.COM]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 1:33 AM
And I want someone to tell me what is sold by electric companies.
"Quantity of electricity" cannot be used, since it already means "charge."
(think of Faraday's Law in electrochem.) Electric companies sell...
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My "electric company" sells me energy, billed in units of "kilowatt-hours"
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