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What are positive and negative charges ? Which type of charge does electron have ?

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The charges were named as positive and negative by the American scientist Benjamin Franklin.
When we add a positive number to a negative number of the same magnitude the sum is zero. This might have been the philosophy in naming the charges as positive and negative.
By this logic, charge of electron is considered as negative.
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