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What is meant by magnitude of a charge

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The elementary charge, usually denoted as e or sometimes q, is the electric chargecarried by a single proton, or equivalently, the magnitude of the electric chargecarried by a single electron, which has charge −e. This elementary charge is a fundamental physical constant.

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