if electric is made of electron then why dont we make a electric but its made of proton or neutron
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electrons don't actually have to move through metal for electricity to flow. they just transmit energy along a path well when they can move a little. electrons in a wire actually move really slowly like a few centimeters per hour.
metals are the reason for electric flow (specifically their electron cloud)
metals are the only mineral (besides water) that are able to lead a charge from one point to another (my understanding)
in the electron cloud, spare electrons move freely around, which makes them easy to transport.
Protons on the other hand have a bigger magnetic field than a electron
so more energy would be needed to transport an proton from point a to point b because it has troubles getting past the other protons
neutrons on the other hand carry no charge, so if we were able to transport them, we wouldnt get energy from them
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electrons carry a negative charge and thus move towards a proton which carries a positive charge
so basically by moving a proton along a path you would also move electrons along the same path
you don't actually need to move the electrons from point a to point b to have electricity go from a to b. It's kind of like a wave in water. The wave is the electricity. If a wave goes from point A to point B it's not like the water molecules went from A to B but the wave which is the actual electricity does.
edit: Also electron clouds are not technically free, they are held by the nucleus which is why they are localized around the atom but that's not even talking about quantum mechanics where the cloud is just where it "could be" and not where it is.
im just blabbering my understanding, i know electricity is magnetic waves, but i dont quite understand it yet so i am just blabbering an easy to understand (even if its not really correct) version for me and maybe others
thanks for correcting me
Nah its cool and it's not particularly well known that charges don't actually need to move to transmit electricity. Most engineers don't necessarily need to know. Besides Cunningham's Law makes this the best way to actually get correct answers
if i understood correctly
a flow of electricity is essentially just a transfer of magnetic waves, right?
Very technically it's the poynting vector which is a combination of electric and magnetic fields but yea. There's a good veritasium video on this, the big misconception about electricity I believe.
out of everything you have posted on this god forsaken website this may have just been the most stupid thing you have let yourself type out onto the keyboard. Your average 9/10th grader knows that only electrons can be used to generate a current.
I'm getting baited by this thread cause I actually understand something on this website now but any charge carrier can generate current. Protons obviously but even more exotic particles (if you can find them outside physics labs)
sure but I meant it from an efficiency standpoint. Protons carrying a charge just means you are wasting a lot of energy just to free it to move around ygm.
it depends tbh, for instance in salt water the charge carriers are ions which are much heavier than protons. The real reason protons won't be a good charge carrier is cause it is very difficult to get a soup of just protons since they are strongly bound to the neutrons in the nucleus.
I see what you are getting at and it makes sense. I was just addressing the stupidity of the statement made by Berlinglazer here
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