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Which is the primary use of a capacitor?

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A capacitor is used to capacitate
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A capacitor is used to store energy
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A capacitor is used to convert chemical energy to electrical energy
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It has no practical use, it’s only to make the electrical circuits look more complicated.
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The correct option is B A capacitor is used to store energy
A capacitor is used to store electrical energy.
I don’t know if ‘Capacitate’ has anything to do with the use of capacitance. Maybe on a philosophical layer but we are doing science here right?
A battery is used to convert chemical energy to electrical energy, and not a capacitor.
Yeah! Sometimes as a student, I did feel that “they” are putting too many things on a circuit just to make it look complicated and scare us, but once I understood capacitance it never scared me again.

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