Sentences with phrase «negative electrons flow»

While the negative electrons flow out as usable current, the positive protons are drawn to the cathode, where they recombine with returning electrons and oxygen to produce water.

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They learned about negative and positive electrons, why they attract, and how electricity flows.

While electrons, with their negative charge, flow from one pole of the battery to the other (thus providing power for devices), positive ions flow the other way, through an electrolyte, or ion conductor, sandwiched between those poles, to complete the flow.

However, apply an outside current to a secondary battery and the negative - to - positive electron flow that occurs during discharge is reversed.

Inside a battery, chemical reactions involving a material called an electrolyte cause electrons to accumulate in the negative terminal, or anode, and flow when it's connected to the positive terminal, or cathode.

The heat on one side springs electrons from the atoms they are normally part of, and they flow to the cooler side, leaving the hot side positively charged and making the cold side negative.