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Who named positive and negative charges?

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Faraday
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Gauss
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Benjamin Franklin
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Curie
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The correct option is C Benjamin Franklin
Answer is C.
In the 18th century, Benjamin Franklin in America tried experiments with charges. It was Franklin who named the two kinds of electricity 'positive' and 'negative'. He even collected electric charges from thunderstorm clouds through wet string from a kite.

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