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| Mar 21, 2014 at 8:09 | comment | added | J Ashley | Yes, I completely agree. I did say thinking of charge as a thing was 'hugely simplistic'. The trick only works because of the fixed relationship: an electron always carries 1.6x10^19 coulombs of charge. I suppose another analogy might be to think of charge as a property of a charged particle in the same way that mass is a property of matter. | |
| Mar 21, 2014 at 2:11 | comment | added | Alfred Centauri | Electric charge is a property, not a thing. An elementary particle such as an electron has the property of electric charge but you cannot find electric charge in isolation, i.e., electric charge is necessarily carried by a particle thus the phrase, "charge carrier". | |
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| Mar 20, 2014 at 21:58 | history | answered | J Ashley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |