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# Led
Leds have polarity, that means they only allow current to flow in one direction. That means LED's are diodes.
While in resistors the relations of voltage to current is linear:
![](./current-voltage-characteristic.svg)
that is not the case for leds
![](./diode-voltage-graph.svg)