My Questions Answered: What exactly is electricity and how does it work?

     Have any of you asked yourself this question before? Well, you're in luck, because I'm going to answer right now! Here it goes.

     Electricity is not matter, but a form of energy. Electricity is the flow of moving electrons. If you don't know, electrons are sub-atomic particles. These particles make up atoms and molecules, There are three types of sub-atomic particles, protons, neutrons, and electrons. Protons have a positive charge, electrons have a negative charge, and neutrons have no charge. Back to electricity, electrons move when an atoms rub with each other. Electrons move from the first atom to the other. The atom that lost electrons will now be positively charged, as now there are more protons, and the other atom, that gained electrons, will have a negative charge. Since opposites attract, the two atoms will stick together. Similarly, if both atoms had a positive, or if both had a negative charge, they would repel. That means that electrons are always repelling and pushing each other, and this creates the electric current. Batteries and generators have electrons stored in them, which help move the electrons through wire.

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