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The charges that accumulate on the plates of a capacitor are not provided by the material of the plates themselves but by the source that is charging them, so there is in principle no limit to the amount of charge that they can hold, if your source is strong enough.
The explanation why a capacitor never fully charges or discharges is that the current flowing into or out of it will depend upon the volts dropped across the series resistor (there is always one) the nearer it gets to being fully charged, the lower the voltage across the resistor and the lower the charging current.
where τ τ is the time constant given by τ = RC τ = R C and Q Q is the maximum charge the capacitor can have when fully charged in that circuit. In order to find the time taken by the capacitor to get fully charged we have to put q = Q q = Q in the right side of the above equation that gives
A capacitor is fully charged when it cannot hold any more energy without being damaged and it is fully discharged if it is brought back to 0 volts DC across its terminals.
In the context of ideal circuit theory, it is true that the current through the capacitor asymptotically approaches zero and thus, the capacitor asymptotically approaches full charge. But this is of no practical interest since this is just an elementary mathematical model that cannot be applied outside the context in which its assumptions hold.
You can also think of it as the capacitor loses its charge, its voltage is dropping and so the electric field applied on the electrons decreases, and there is less force pushing the remaining electrons out, and eventually this force will be so low that it cannot move an electron.
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