What does it mean if something is "negatively/positively charged"?

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Answer 1

It has a charge, it's either an electron up or down.

Answer 2

it can be negatively charged, and then it can turn positively charged, like a balloon, how it can stick to your hair.

Answer 3

A little more context would help.

One interpretation could be that the statement could be read as "if something carries a charge, regardless of whether it is a negative or positive charge, ..."

Another interpretation could be that the something carries opposite charges at each end, like a water molecule.

The most narrow interpretation would be that the thing must carry both a negative and a positive charge and that the order of the charges, as you encounter them, is negative first, followed by positive.

Would you please provide the complete sentence for us?

Answer 4

well if something is positively charged it means it has more protons than electrons.

if something is negatively charged, it has more electrons than protons.

Answer 5

think magnets.

Items with similar charges either (-/-) or (+/+) attract one another and items w/ opposite charges (-/+) or (+/-) repel each other.

Answer 6

if an elephant negatively charged its bad.