Electric charge/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Electric charge.

A fundamental property of matter underlying electricity and electromagnetism, which occurs in positive and negative forms as integer multiples of an elementary charge unit, and which causes identically charged particles, even though spatially separated, to exhibit mutual repulsion, and oppositely charged particles to exhibit mutual attraction.