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free charge

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noun

  1. any electric charge that can be placed on a conductor or on or within a dielectric or that moves freely in space (opposed to polarization charge).


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The UV radiation creates free charge carriers in the particles, which induce decomposition of the trapped pollutants from air into small parts and their release.

From Science Daily Mar. 25, 2024

"I remembered as I saw these people making their own free charge for democracy and freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr, saying: 'Free at last, free at last'," Schulke wrote.

From BBC Nov. 23, 2019

“A free charge could end up draining your bank account,” Luke Sisak, a deputy district attorney, said in a video posted online this month.

From New York Times Nov. 18, 2019

These two centers of charge will terminate some of the electric field lines coming from a free charge, as on a DNA molecule.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

A free charge will flow away to the earth if a conducting path be provided.

From Hawkins Electrical Guide, Number One Questions, Answers, & Illustrations, A Progressive Course of Study for Engineers, Electricians, Students and Those Desiring to acquire a Working Knowledge of Electricity and its Applications by Hawkins, Nehemiah

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