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  • Electric Current and Charge: Understanding Wire Neutrality
    A current-carrying wire is not electrically charged because the number of electrons moving in one direction is exactly balanced by the number of positive charges (the atomic nuclei) that are stationary in the wire. So, the net charge of the wire is zero.

    Another way to think about it is that the electrons are moving with equal and opposite velocities, so their net contribution to the magnetic field is zero.

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