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Is it correct to say that an electrical current is used up as it passes through an electrical components?
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∙ 10y ago
No. No more than water is used up as it passes through a pipe. In almost all circuits,
for every electron that leaves the negative terminal of the battery and flows into the
circuit, an electron returns at the battery's positive terminal. Each electron is completely
spent, exhausted, limping, semi conscious, completely empty of energy and barely able
to stagger to the finish line, but the number of electrons ... the amount of current and
the amount of charge ... is not 'used up'.
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∙ 10y ago
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∙ 7y agoIt would not be wrong. When electricity passes through a component which is not a conductor or wire, the electricity gets used up in some sense. It can get converted to some other form of electricity or heat or light to accomplish some purpose.
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