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=== Assistant: If a person somehow “gained an extra electron to their atoms,” what’s really happening is: they’re picking up a tiny bi… ===
If a person somehow “gained an extra electron to their atoms,” what’s really happening is: they’re picking up a tiny bit of extra negative electric charge.

Here’s what that means in simple terms:
* Atoms like being neutral. Normally, each atom has the same number of protons (+) and electrons (–), so the charges balance.
* Adding an extra electron makes an ion. If one atom gains an electron, it becomes a negative ion (an anion). This happens all the time in chemistry—perfectly normal.
* For a whole person, this is just static electricity. When you walk on a carpet and then get a shock touching a doorknob, you’ve basically picked up extra electrons on the surface of your skin and clothes. - You → slightly negatively charged (too many electrons). - The spark → electrons jumping off you to balance things out.
* Does it change your body or powers? - A tiny extra charge: just static, maybe small shocks, hair standing up. - The number of electrons involved is extremely small compared to all the atoms in your body, so it doesn’t change who you are, your chemistry, or give you powers. - If somehow you gained a huge amount of extra electrons, the electric forces would be so strong they’d cause dangerous discharges (big sparks/lightning-like arcs) before it ever built up to anything “superhuman.”

So, at the level of one atom:

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At the level of a whole person:

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If you want, I can explain how many atoms/electrons are in your body to show how tiny those extra electrons really are.