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Positive and Negative Charges

By Janice VanCleave

The American scientists and statesman Benjamin Franklin (1706-1783) named the two natural forms of electric charges. He called one a positive charge and the other a negative charge.  A charge (electric charge) is the property of  subatomic particles within atoms that causes a force between the particles. The force between charged particles is called an […]

Filed Under: electricity, Physics Tagged With: Benjamin Franklin, electrostatic charge

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