Static electricity is a ubiquitous part of everyday life. It’s all around us, sometimes funny and obvious, as when it makes your hair stand on end, sometimes hidden and useful, as when harnessed by ...

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(I) MR. KEMPSON'S book on magnetism and electricity is based on the course given to the science forms in the Upper School at Rugby. The ground covered is fairly extensive, and the matter is dealt with ...

The imbalance of charges that takes place with this fun phenomenon typically happens when two different materials come into contact and then are separated. In the experience, one of the materials may ...