Current
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Imagine that we could connect a conductive wire from one container to the other container connecting them together. When the wire is connected, the container filled with negative ions (having too many electrons) would start to loose its extra electrons to the other container filled with positive ions (missing electrons). The electrons would actually leave the orbit of the atom, travel through the wire, and go into the orbit of another atom in the other container. The movement of electrons from one atom to another atom is called current.
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