: What’s the basic concept of electricity, what is it and how does it work?

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: What’s the basic concept of electricity, what is it and how does it work?

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So you have a property of matter called “charge”. You can have positive charge or negative charge. Negative charge carriers (electrons) can move easily through conductive materials, mostly metals. That movement of those electrons is known as electricity. One of the properties of a moving charge is that you can “induce” magnetic fields, and if you place that in proximity of a magnet, you can cause motion just through moving charges. That’s an electric motor.