Question

What is meant by electric charge of a body is quantized?

Answer 1

It is the property by which any charge lives only in separate collection or bundle of specific minimum charge. Positive and negative charge in the equation is denoted by q. The equation is shown below:

q=ne

n can have both negative as well as positive values. E.g. 1, 2, 3……. and -1,-2,-3,-4……..
e in the above equation means charge having a value of 1.6 X 10 -19.The charge present on both the protons and electrons is denoted by e but the difference is that the charge on an electron is (-e) and on proton is (+e).intergal multiple

Answer 2

$\textbf{Electric charge is quantized}$. It means a substance or a body has electric charge which exist in discrete packets.

Any charged body or substance has a total electric charge q which is an integral multiple of charge on an electron (e)

That is, q = ±ne, where n = 1,2,3,... and e =1.6×10^-19