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| The fundamental electrical property to which the mutual attractions or repulsions between electrons or protons is attributed. |
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| Material, usually metal in which electricity flows through. |
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| The principle that net electric charge is neither created or destroyed but transferable from one material to another. |
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| The Electrical force between two charges varies directly as the product of the charges and inversely as the square of the distance between them. |
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| A force that one charge exerts on another. Like charges repel, opposite charges attract. |
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| Term applied to an atom or molecule in which the charges are aligned so one end is is slightly more positive or negative than the opposite, they attract. |
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| The study of electric charge at rest. |
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| Allowing a charge to move freely along a connection between a conductor and the ground. |
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| Term applied to an electric charge that has been redistributed on an object because of the presence of a charged object nearby. |
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| The charging of an object without direct contact. |
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| A material that is a poor conductor of heat and that delays the transfer of heat. |
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| Material that can behave as either an insulator or conductor of electricity. |
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| Material that has infinite conductivity at very low temperatures, so that the charge flows through it without resistance. |
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