Does the electric field make electrons?

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...an electric field?
 
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DiracPool doesn't know what he is talking about, I am afraid. Electrons have electric charge, and one of the properties of electric charge is that it generates an electric field.
 
Vanadium 50 said:
and one of the properties of electric charge is that it generates an electric field.

which means electrons create an electric field, right?
 
generates = creates, yes.
 

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