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If there is less voltage across a resistor, there will also be less current.

As for the second question, I assume you mean two resistors in series. If the voltage or potential difference across one decreases, then the other one must increase, due to Kirchhof's Voltage Law: the total voltage across the two resistors must be equal to the voltage across the battery, which is usually assumed to be constant.

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You can think of voltage drops in terms of a water radiator central heating system. In order to drive water around all the radiators, there must be a difference in pressure across the entire system. But for water to flow through each, individual, radiator, there must also be a difference in pressure across its input and output orifices. The sum of these individual pressure difference must equal the pressure difference across the entire system.

If you now equate a pressure difference across an individual radiator with the voltage drop across a resistor, then the sum of the voltage drops across each resistor must equal the voltage across the entire circuit.

You should also realise that voltage does not 'slow down' current -it affects its magnitude (in amperes)

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