Electric Charge/Quantum/Examples

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Examples of Quanta of Electric Charge

$60 \ \mathrm W$ Bulb at $200 \ \mathrm V$

Consider a $60 \ \mathrm W$ light bulb running at $200 \ \mathrm V$.

Approximately $2 \times 10^{18}$ units of elementary charge flow along the filament of the light bulb every second.