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| 6688672033 | anion | a negatively charged ion | 0 | |
| 6688672034 | attract | opposite charges do this | 1 | |
| 6688672035 | capacitor | store energy and charge by holding electrons on plates separated by a very small distances | 2 | |
| 6688672036 | cation | positively charged ion | 3 | |
| 6688672037 | charge | the fundamental electrical property to which the mutual attractions or repulsions between electrons or protons is attributed | 4 | |
| 6688672038 | charge by contact | where objects rub against each other to produce electric charge | 5 | |
| 6688672039 | charged by induction | process of rearranging electrons on a neutral object by bringing a charged object closed to it | 6 | |
| 6688672040 | charged | referring to matter having an excess of electrons or a deficiency of electrons | 7 | |
| 6688672041 | conductor | material, usually a metal, through which electric charge can flow; good conductors of heat are generally good charge conductors | 8 | |
| 6688672042 | conservation of charge | the principle that net electric charge is neither created nor destroyed but is transferable from one material to another | 9 | |
| 6688672044 | coulomb | SI unit of charge. One coulomb (symbol C) is equal to the total charge of 6.24 X 1018 electrons | 10 | |
| 6688672045 | coulomb's constant | value of k in Coulomb's Law. |  | 11 |
| 6688672046 | coulomb's law | the relationship among electrical force, charges, and distance; the electrical force between two charges varies directly as the product of the charges and inversely as the square of the distance between them | 12 | |
| 6688672048 | electric charge | charge obtained by an object when it gains or loses electrons | 13 | |
| 6688672049 | electric field | a field of force surrounding a charged particle | 14 | |
| 6688672050 | electric field lines | shows direction charged particles will move; direction is for positively charged particles; the closer the lines the stronger the electric field | 15 | |
| 6688672051 | electric field strength | a quantitative expression of the intensity of an electric field at a particular location | 16 | |
| 6688672052 | electrical force | a force that one charge exerts on another. When the charges are the same sign, they repel; when the charges are opposite, they attract | 17 | |
| 6688672053 | electrically polarized | term applied to an atom or molecule in which the charges are aligned so that one side is slightly more positive or negative than the opposite side | 18 | |
| 6688672054 | electrons | these have a negative charge and orbit the nucleus | 19 | |
| 6688672055 | electrostatics | the study of electric charges at rest | 20 | |
| 6688672056 | electrostatic equilibrium | that there is no net flow of electric charge or no electric current | 21 | |
| 6688672058 | equilibrium | a stable situation in which forces cancel one another | 22 | |
| 6688672059 | field force | force exerted upon another object without physical contact in an electric field | 23 | |
| 6688672060 | grounding | allowing charges to move freely along a connection between a conductor and the ground | 24 | |
| 6688672061 | induced | term applied to electric charge that has been redistributed on an object because of the presence of a charged object nearby | 25 | |
| 6688672062 | induction | the charging of an object without direct contact | 26 | |
| 6688672063 | insulator | material that is a poor conductor of electricity | 27 | |
| 6688672064 | ion | a particle that is electrically charged | 28 | |
| 6688672065 | law of conservation of charge | charge is neither created or destroyed | 29 | |
| 6688672066 | magnitude | how big something is | 30 | |
| 6688672067 | negative charge | the charge an object has when it has gained electrons | 31 | |
| 6688672068 | neutrons | the particles of the nucleus that have no charge | 32 | |
| 6688672069 | positive charge | the charge an object ha when it has lost electrons | 33 | |
| 6688672070 | protons | positively charged particles located in the nucleus | 34 | |
| 6688672071 | q | symbol used for charge | 35 | |
| 6688672072 | quantized | comes in certain very small amounts | 36 | |
| 6688672073 | repel | two charged that are the same do this | 37 | |
| 6688672074 | Robert Millikan | calculated the charge on an electron and its mass (oil droplet) | 38 | |
| 6688672075 | semi-conductor | aterial that can be made to behave as either a conductor or an insulator of electricity | 39 | |
| 6688672076 | sink | a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system | 40 | |
| 6688672077 | static | the build up of electric charges on an object | 41 | |
| 6688672078 | static electricity | occurs when electric chargers build up when materials are pulled apart or rubbed together | 42 | |
| 6688672079 | super conductor | a substance that undergoes a change at low temperatures that allows it to conduct electricity with zero resistance | 43 | |
| 6688672080 | super-position | the voltage or the current across a conductor in a circuit is the same as obtained by superimposing the voltage and currents due to each of the emfs individually | 44 | |
| 6688672081 | torsion balance | measuring instrument designed to measure small forces by the torsion they exert on a thin wire | 45 | |
| 6688672082 | volt | the standard unit of potential difference and electromotive force | 46 |
