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mopc said:Yes but the electrons never actually leave the copper wire's atoms! Othewise we'd end up with a bunch of electronless atoms. What then "feeds" an electric device? Charge?
Never is a very short time, and not quite right.
In a short time called "relaxation time" there's a slight imbalance in which one
electron will have flowed a certain distance before being replaced by the one behind.