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Can an electric charge be positive?

When a process of oxidation takes place the element acquires a unit positive charge. The number of protons are more than the number of electrons in an element which gives the element its positive charge as the protons have a positive charge.


What is the fundamental carrier of electric charge?

The fundamental carrier of electric charge is the electron. The charge on one electron is 1.6021765 × 10−19 Coulomb, and is negative. Charge can't exist in any smaller quantity, and all charges are multiples of this quantity. Protons have a positive charge of the same quantity, but they stay in their respective nuclei and don't participate in the movement of charge from place to place.


What are positive affects of volcanoes?

Negative and positive affects of a volcano is that you would die and people wouldn't miss you... and a positive is that new plants would take your place.


Where is the relation between the holes and proton like the positiv charge?

proton has the positive charge and holes came in the picture during the discovery of diodes. It is also important in the phenomenon of drift velocity(electricity related process) and scientists consider that when a electron moves from its place to the other side of diodes a vacant place is created where there was electron before so that vacant site is referred as hole and it is taken as having positive charge because as the electrons move the other side of diode more holes are created as deficiency of electrons and that side of diode behaves as positive side and other side of diode as the accumulation of negative charges (electron) behaves as negative side.


How does electricity flow within electric circuits?

electrical charges flow in a series circuit buy a power source and a load

Related questions

Why hole has positive charge?

A hole is a place where an electron is missing. Since the electron has a negative charge, the lack of an electron produces a net positive charge.


What holds the electrons around the nucleas?

protons hold electrons around the nucleus. Electrons have a negative charge while protons have a positive charge, so since opposite charges attract each other, electrons and protons hold each other in place.


Are all electrons attracted to each other?

Electrons have a negative charge, so they will repel away from one another. Electrons are attracted only to protons or other positive charges. if your question is whether,a negative charge attracts other, it is possible,if you place a charge of less magnitude near a charge of greater magnitude, one can attract other.this is due to the fact that, induction charges are set up in the lesser magnitude charge due to the greater magnitude charge.


Is an electric charge a property of just electricity or is charge a property of all atoms?

Atoms contain both positive (protons) and negative (electrons) electric charges. But in the vast majority of atoms these positive and negative electric charges balance, canceling and resulting in zero total electric charge. When electrons detach from atoms we generate electricity. Where there are fewer electrons there is a positive charge. Where there are more electrons there is a negative charge. When two places have different charges we get an electric voltage. When electrons flow from a negatively charged place to a positively charged place we get an electric current.


What couses lightning?

in a cumulonimbus cloud (a thunderstorm cloud) there are negative and positive charges. the ground is positive, the lower level of the cloud is negative and the upper level of the cloud is positive. When lightning is about to take place there is one path where negative and positive charges crossing, thus creating an electrical charge, in other works lightning.


What holds electrons in their shells?

The electrons "orbit" the nucleus of an atom. They do so because they are attracted to the positive charge of the protons inside the nucleus. They do not usually leave the atom because of this attraction, and do not usually fall into the nucleus because they are moving.


How do you charge a capacitor?

You charge a capacitor by placing DC voltage across its terminal leads. Make sure when using a polarized capacitor to place positive voltage across the positive lead (the longer lead) and negative voltage across the negative lead. Also make sure that the voltage you charge the capacitor to doesn't exceeds its voltage rating.


How does permanent dipole-dipole interaction take place?

because of certain elements being more electronegative than others, this causes positive and negative ends of the molecule. the positive ends then attract the negative ends and vice versa, and so this is Van der Walls' forces


Why do protons in an atom stay in one place evem though they have the same positive charge?

Protons and nuetrons attract each other by another force, called the "strong force".


Can an electric charge be positive?

When a process of oxidation takes place the element acquires a unit positive charge. The number of protons are more than the number of electrons in an element which gives the element its positive charge as the protons have a positive charge.


Is current electricity the same as static electricity?

NO static is a positive charge and grid(current/power) is a negative charge because of the electrons and static stays in 1 place where as current always whants to move


Why the electron move from low potential to high potential?

Opposites attract, a place with relative high potential has the property of equalizing potential over the available space and so electric current flows to the lower potential to even out the overall potential.