: if you disconnect a power cable, where does the electricity that is still in the cable go?

Question

: if you disconnect a power cable, where does the electricity that is still in the cable go?

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Answer 1

Electricity isn’t electrons. It’s the *flow* of electrons.

When you turn off a tap, where does the water go? It’s sitting there in the pipe.

When you unplug a power cable, it’s still a metal wire (full of electrons), but they’re not moving (because there’s nowhere for them to go anymore) so there’s no electricity.