Why electron have negative charge

1.	Why electron have negative charge
Answer» We know that atom is electrically neutral and at that time only protons were discovered so they stated that there is negatively charged body which make atom electrically neutral and later was termed as electron<br>Electric\xa0charge\xa0is a physical property of matter. It is created by an imbalance in a substance\'s number of protons and\xa0electrons. The matter is positively charged if it contains more protons than\xa0electrons, and it is negatively charged if it contains more\xa0electrons\xa0than protons.

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