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What do calcium and potassium ions migrating through cellular membranes have to do with electricity, anyway? Never quite got that...
by hoseja 3y ago
What do calcium and potassium ions migrating through cellular membranes have to do with electricity, anyway? Never quite got that...
- yetihehe 3y agoIons mean there's some positive electric charge. When you move some ions to one side of membrane, you have charge imbalance. When you have a charge imbalance between two sides of some insulator (cellular membrane), you have voltage potential. You can use that potential to do work (like light a diode, turn a motor or do some calculations).