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What is electrical neutrality?

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Answer for UK, Europe and countries running a 50 Hz supply service.

Neutral is the name given to one of the wires in an electricity supply. It is a current-carrying wire but is at or near earth potential.

As an example, in the UK each group of 20-30 houses is supplied from a three-phase transformer, which has three live wires and a neutral that is connected to ground at the transformer. Then each house is fed from one live wire plus the neutral wire, with a 240 v single-phase supply, usually limited to 60 amps for average family houses.

At the house, the voltage between neutral and earth might be zero or up to 2-3 volts depending on the voltage developed by the resistance of the neutral multiplied by the current going along it back to the transformer.

Each house also has an earth connection which carries no current but is connected to the gas and water pipes and to the earth pin on 3-pin power sockets, for safety so that any metal surfaces that could be touched are all at earth potential.

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Proposed by Linus Pauling (1901-1994), states that the atoms in a molecule share electrons in a manner which makes the charge on each atom as close to zero as possible.

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Electric neutrality is where electric potential is zero

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Standard household electrical circuits include 2 voltage ("hot") wires and a neutral return wire which is tied to ground at a single location in the distribution panel.

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