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negative charge

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negative charge [′neg·əd·iv ′chärj]
(electricity)
The type of charge which is possessed by electrons in ordinary matter, and which may be produced in a resin object by rubbing with wool. Also known as negative electricity.


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For example, the observed behavior of the Earth revolving around the sun can be perfectly explained if the sun has a net positive charge and the planets have a net negative charge, since opposite charges attract and the force is an inverse-square law, exactly like the increasingly discredited theory of gravity.
It was about the same time that he was figuring out how reduced chimneys, big centres of negative charge that frequently occur over metal deposits, work.
Zwitterions, in case you have forgotten, are ions that carry both a positive and negative charge.
 
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