The siemens, symbol , is the SI unit of electrical conductance and electrical admittance: . A conductance of corresponds to resistance for an ideal resistor.
The same unit can describe a complex electrical admittance in a sinusoidal experiment; that value includes a reactive part as well as conductance. For a uniform conducting sample, electrical conductivity instead has units because the conversion from material response to conductance also involves sample area and length.
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