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What is the significance of the fact that the droplets carried different charges?

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The charges on a droplet can be used to represent the number of electrons carried by this droplet.
In other words:
a droplet having a charge of 1.60 x 10^-19 has 1.60 x 10^-19 electrons while a droplet having a charge of 3.15 x 10^-19 has 3.15 x 10^-19 electrons.

From the observations:
The fact that the droplets carried different charges signifies the fact the different droplets carried different numbers of electrons
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