statampere

The unit of electric current in the centimeter-gram-second electrostatic system of units. One statampere is a flow of charge equal to 1 statcoulomb per second, approximately 3.3356 × 10−10 ampere. Symbol, statA.

Sometimes called an esampere.1

1.
For example, see page 387 of:
Members of the Physics Staff of the University of Pittsburgh.
An Outline of Atomic Physics. 2nd Ed.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1937.

 

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