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The main thing the sodium/potassium pump does is to move sodium and potassium ions, Na+ and K+. It technically generates a bit of charge separation in doing this, but you can ignore it for now.
What is important is that because of the operation of this pump, you now have two sides of membrane with different ion concentrations. One side is high in sodium ...
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