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

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What does a neutral do?

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Not an electrician. I’m curious if anyone would expand on this and explain why hot-neutral-ground is a preferable system to hot-hot-ground, assuming the same end voltage in both cases. The latter to ground would be half the voltage of the former no? Is it to simplify the panel? Is it solely so high voltage appliances can be serviced as two phase?

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