What does it mean when two point charges form a dipole a small distance away from each other?
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Electric Charge and Electric Field:
In brief, electrons are negative charges and protons are positive charges. An electron is considered the smallest quantity of negative charge and a proton the smallest quantity of positive charge.
Two negative charges repel. Also, two positive charges repel. A positive charge and a negative charge attract each other (all experimentally verified.)
Point Charge: An accumulation of electric charges at a point (a tiny volume in space) is called a point charge.
Note: When an atom loses an electron, the separated electron forms a negative charge, but the remaining that contains one less electron or consequently one more proton becomes a positive charge. A positive charge is not necessarily a single proton. In most cases, a positive charge is an atom that has lost one or more electron