What is the purpose of a neutral line in electrical wire?

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What does a neutral do?

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In the spirit of ELI5, we need to simplify.

Neutral wire is simply the other hot wire to complete a circuit. Your electrical cable carries 3 wires may seem confusing. Ignoring the ground wire, if a complete circuit is a circle, collapsing the circle makes a double wired cable. Add in the ground wire makes the 3 wire cable in your wall.

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