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How do you determine which wire on a led or capacitor is the negative end?

Answer:
on an LED, the negative end is the shorter side.
on a capacitor, the negative end usually has some kind of marking on it, whether its a line, or an arrow or something.
with ceramic disk capacitors, there is no negative end, you just attach each side to a positive end, usually for a solar panel or something to store energy.
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