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Electrons in a Conductor

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how does a conductor or a wire carrying current is nuetral or how does it have a net charge on it equal to zero?

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A wire carrying current is electrically neutral as for every free electron moving around in a current-carrying conductor, there is a corresponding proton within the fixed atoms, so the conductor is neither negatively- nor positively-charged, but neutral.

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