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Soon after the discovery of the electron, the flow of the electrical current (synonymous with the transport of charge) in the ionized gases was ascribed to the movement of electrons and ions, along and counter (respectively) to the direction of the applied electric field.
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Sodha, M.S. (2014). Theory of Electrical Conduction. In: Kinetics of Complex Plasmas. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 81. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1820-3_8
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