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What exactly is electricity?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

Electricity is defined as the rapid movement of electrons from one atom to another, (multiplied by millions of times), which then creates an electrical charge. The force that causes the electrons to move from atom to atom is voltage.

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