Electricity completely surrounds us -- For most of us, modern life would be impossible without it. Here are just a few examples:

• Throughout your house, you probably find electrical outlets where you can plug in all sorts of electrical applicances.
• Most portable devices contain batteries, which produce varying amounts of electricity depending on their size.
• During a thunderstorm, there are huge bolts of electricity called lightning that shoot down from the sky.
• On a much smaller scale, you can get a shock from static electricity on dry winter days.
• It is easy to create electricity from sunlight using a solar cell; or you can create electricity from the chemical energy in hydrogen and oxygen using a fuel cell.

So what is this mysterious stuff that we call electricity? Where does it come from, and why is it able to do so many different things?

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