Whether charges can stay inside wires or on the surface of a conductor

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In an ideal circuit with no resistance, excess charge from an isolated capacitor will redistribute on the surfaces of conductors to ensure that the electric field inside the conductors remains zero. The charges cannot stay within the wires themselves; they must reside on the surfaces. This redistribution occurs because the ideal wires are considered to have no internal electric field. Consequently, the electric field must be zero everywhere within the conductors. Therefore, excess charge will always move to the surfaces of conductors in such a scenario.
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There's an isolated capacitor initially carrying nonzero net charge. Then place the capacitor in a circuit connected with ideal wires (no resistance). Where will the excess charge go? Can they stay in wires or on any surfaces of conductors in the circuit? Electric field needs to be 0 everywhere in ideal wires.
 
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