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What is electricity?
Question Date: 2003-06-03
Answer 1:

Electricity is made with tiny particles called electrons , which move from one place to another. It flows best in materials that have loosely bound electrons in their atoms. That is true of most metals, and of those metals Silver is about the best, with Copper next, and then Aluminum.



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