Why were electrons chosen to be negatively charged? Wouldn't it make more sense to call electrons positively charged because when they move they make electricity?
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➡️➡️➡️⬇️⬇️⬇️First of all, "electricity" does not mean "moving electric charge".
➡️If "electricity" meant "moving electric charge" then "static electricity" would mean "stationary moving electric charge," which is nonsense. "Electricity" is a general term describing all effects connected to electric charges.
➡️ When people use the word "electricity" to describe what is going on in an electric wire, they usually mean "electric current".
⭐⭐⭐Electric currents in a gas discharge sign are carried by both electrons and ions. Relabeling the electrons as positive would require relabeling the moving ions as negative and nothing would be gained. Public Domain Image, source: NIH.⭐⭐⭐
➡️Secondly, electric current is not just a bunch of moving electric charges. Electric current is the netmovement of electric charges and the movement of electric field disturbances connected to the charges. That is why electrical signals in a wire, such as telephone calls, travel on the order of the speed of light while the electrons themselves travel much slower.
➡️If electric currents were nothing more than moving electrons, then it would take 6 months for your voice on the telephone call to reach the other side of town.
➡️The objects in a material that are contributing the most to an electric current are called the charge carriers.
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since opposite charges attract each other the negatively charged electrons are attracted to the positively charged protons