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Topic: Electric Charge How does a plastic comb attract paper? What? You don’t believe me? Ok. Let us try. Take a plastic comb and bring it close to some pieces of paper. Hey, Wait. Don’t laugh. We need to do something first. Rub the comb on your dry hair and then bring the comb close to the pieces of paper. See, I was correct. The pieces of paper got attracted to the plastic comb. Do you think it is magic? No, the reason behind this is electric charge. Electric charge is the quantity of electricity held in an object. There are 2 types of electric charges, positive and negative. However, there are some objects where the positive and negative charges are equal to one another. In such cases, we say that the object is electrically neutral. So, was the plastic comb initially electrically neutral or electrically charged? Initially, the plastic comb was electrically neutral. That means it had equal number of positive and negative charges. Hence, i