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No, if it is ever, "Used up" then that means that there is no more flow of electrons. That in turn would mean no electric current is flowing. From Ohm's Law V=IR we get I=V/R. So no matter how large of a value R can be (using resistance equivalence we can make it very large by putting a bunch of resistors in a row) the theoretical value for I is never zero, albeit very very small.

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