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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

A positive free charge is shown, but free charges can be either positive or negative and are, in fact, negative in metals.

From Textbooks Aug. 12, 2015

The terms free charge and dissimulated electricity convey therefore erroneous notions if they are meant to imply any difference as to the mode or kind of action.

From Experimental Researches in Electricity, Volume 1 by Michael Faraday

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