Static electricity
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Static electricity is an imbalance of electric charges within or on the surface of a material. The charge remains until it can move away as an electric current or by electrical discharge. The word "st
Example of the effect of static electricity on a child's hair
Styrofoam peanuts clinging to a cat's fur due to static electricity. This effect is also the cause of static cling in clothes.
A network card inside an antistatic bag
An antistatic wrist strap with crocodile clip
Electrostatic generator
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An electrostatic generator, or electrostatic machine, is an electrical generator that produces static electricity, or electricity at high voltage and low continuous current. The knowledge of static el
A Van de Graaff generator, for classroom demonstrations
12" Quadruple Sector-less Wimshurst Machine (Bonetti Machine)
Typical friction machine using a glass globe, common in the 18th century
Martinus van Marum's Electrostatic generator at Teylers Museum