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If the electron drift speed is small, and the electron's charge is small, how can we still obtain large amounts of current in a conductor ?

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Because free electron number density is very large in the metal approximately `10^(29)` per `1 m^(3)` , it contributes majority in producing large current in the metallic wires.
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