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Can we state quantisation of a charge as 'the electrical charge of any body is the integral multiple of an electron' ?

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Yes, Electric charge of a body is quantized. This means that only integral (1, 2, …., n) number of electrons can be transferred from one body to the other. Hence, a body possesses total charge only in integral multiples of electric charge.

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