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What happens to electricity after it is used?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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Peanut8960

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This depends on the energy source. ______________ Alternate: The question asks about the energy, and not about the materials that exist before and after energy is extracted. As a non-physicist, I believe that in every case where energy is used the energy itself follows some combination of these paths, always including at least a little of the last item: It is transformed into work that has been done on some object, it is transformed into another form of energy like potential or chemical energy or electricity, it is transformed intentionally into heat for one purpose or another, or it is expended as entropy, which is essentially the forever unrecoverable potential to do work. Entropy is often, but not always, in the form of wasted heat.

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Laws of thermodynamics: Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only change forms. In any process, the total energy of the universe remains the same.

When you use anything electrical you are only converting the electricity into some other form of energy in particular, mechanical or heat energy.So when you use a stove for example the electricity is converted into heat. The electical energy is now in your room where you used the stove in the form of heat(which will slowly dissipate into the surrounding air and very minutely change the overall temperature)its still there just in another form.

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when electricity is used it is like that paper that burns to nothing it just get totally consumed. also it is not a solid object you can not fell an object just discharge

When you turn on a light switch, the electricity is converted into light, heat - convection/radiation. Burnt paper turns to ash, smoke, heat and of course light! Maybe your question should be what happens to the light coming from the bulb?

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