Timeline for Why are electrons defined to have negative charge? [duplicate]
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| May 14, 2018 at 14:29 | comment | added | endolith | Electrons are not "the basic unit of electricity"; charge is. | |
| Sep 11, 2013 at 13:06 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 28, 2013 at 8:02 | history | closed |
akhmeteli Qmechanic♦ |
Duplicate of Why is the charge naming convention wrong? | |
| Aug 28, 2013 at 5:36 | vote | accept | intuited | ||
| Aug 28, 2013 at 2:26 | answer | added | KeithS | timeline score: 4 | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 20:44 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 20:24 | comment | added | Kyle Oman | possible duplicate of Why is the charge naming convention wrong? | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 20:00 | comment | added | intuited | Thanks, removed. The root of electric actually means "resembling amber": etymonline.com/index.php?term=electric | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 20:00 | history | edited | intuited | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Removed etymological gaffe
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 19:54 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 27, 2013 at 19:52 | comment | added | dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten | "electricity — a word itself derived from the concept of an electron" You've got that historically backward. The "electron" didn't come along until the twentieth century. | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 19:48 | answer | added | Kyle Kanos | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 27, 2013 at 19:38 | history | asked | intuited | CC BY-SA 3.0 |