What makes electricity want to move? And when it does, is it the same electrons along the way? Or is it pushing electrons out of atoms in like a domino effect?
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Electricity is one way to describe an electric current. An electric current is the movement of an electric charge. Electrons are all negatively charged and repel each other. A high concentration of electrons in one place will want to spread out to areas of low concentration, like food dye in a cup of water.
Magnets are the usual culprit for creating areas of high concentration, like a generator which burns gas to spin a magnet which ‘herds’ electrons in a particular way around a coil of wire, causing them to group at one end. Then you can plug in your light and the electrons will yolo thru the light to get to the other end of the coil where there are few electrons.
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