I understand it comes from Intensity, used to describe the tingling sensation on
the tongue when early investigators used that as a measurement of current!

John Oversby

Veit Martin Koch wrote:

> Hi Ian - or whoever knows the answer:
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> why is the symbol for current I? Where does that come from?
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> Regards,
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> Martin
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