Electricity

Electricity is a subject not a substance!

Geology, Astronomy and Semantics are subjects - so is Electricity.

Electricity does not heat a light bulb filament - electric current heats a filament.

 

There are many, otherwise good authors, who make this mistake. Be warned - the fallacy has many forms and is riddled through most elementary texts in both Chemistry and Physics.

The topic would make a good polemic for an extended essay.

Electrical terms