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Question:

Identify incorrect for electric charge: Conserved, Additive, Quantised, Non-transferable

Additive

Quantised

Conserved

Non-transferable

Solution:

Smallest magnitude of charge is that on a proton, hence charge is quantised. Total charge is always conserved - law of conservation of charge. Charges are additive and follow the addition rules applicable to scalar quantities. Charges can be transferred - remember the conduction experiments with electroscopes and the famous glass rod and silk cloth rubbing experiment.