Preview - Electrons To Electricity - How Does A Circuit Work?

How does a Battery Work? continued...


To answer the questions in the previous step, you must have drawn something like the picture below.


Questions

Please answer the questions below.

As you can see, the negative side of the battery has an excess of anions (negatively changed ions with more electrons than protons). The positive side of the battery has an excess of cations (positively charged ions with fewer electrons than protons).

When there are two or more negatively charged ions near each other, what will happen?

attract
repel
neither

Notes

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