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> From couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net Mon Dec  2 22:25:43 1996
> Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 22:39:20 +0000
> From: "John H. Couture" <couturejh-at-worldnet.att-dot-net>
> To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> Subject: Re: TC Electrostatics
> 
>
>   My physics book says that one coulomb equals about 6 x 10^18 electrons,
> all negative charges. So how do you explain the positive charges? Tesla
made
> several remarks in the CSNotes about the situation mentioned above.
> 
> Jack Couture

Jack,

	A coulomb is defined by the amaount of charge, not necessarily by the
charge carrier. So you can have 1 coulomb of positive ions or one coulomb
of 
"holes" .

-Ed Harris
 ps this is not an endorsement of anyone's theory