Static electricity is when there is either an excess (negative) or lack of (positive) electrons. If electrons are transferred onto another surface, for example by rubbing them together, a positive charge is formed, but if electrons are gained, a negative charge is formed.
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a lightning strike during a storm
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An example is rubbing your head with a balloon. If you rubbed hard enough, your hair should stand up. Also, when you are VERY close to lightning, your hair stands up!!
This is to prevent the buildup of static electricity. The chain dragging on the ground releases the static electricity. It's probably a bit of overkill to do this for a car, and the sparking produced as the chain drags over the roadway is likely worse than the static electricity would be. It can be important for heavy equipment like farm or construction machinery, though.
Metals are perfectly fine if all you want is to discharge the static electricity, but they conduct so well that the discharge often results in a very high current spark.To reduce the possibility of such sparks (which can trigger explosions, damage electronics, etc.) it is better to use high resistance dissipative materials (e.g. treated plastics, humidifiers, air ionizers, in-line megohm resistors on wriststraps, etc.) to slowly discharge the static electricity.
Yes, some huge forest fires have been caused by lightening.
Both. Some kinds are natural and some man-made.
Lightning is a dangerous form of static electricity.
St Elmo's fire is one-that may have caused the Hindenburg disaster according to some
Some types of electricity is static electricity, current electricity...and porn.
static electricity is bad because it causes lightning and thunder(big storms)which can take the electricity in our house
You can make some static electricity by rubbing wool or styrofoam against your head
With some of the chemicals in a hostpital, The static electricity in a hostpital could catch thing on fire with the chemicals.
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Which materials make more static electricity when different objects are rubbed up against eachother.
Some useful electrostatic charges are; static electricity, and full electricity
I have learned some things about it. Maybe your hair is static. It depends. A wooly dress or coat might just work.
STATIC ELECTRICITY builds up when you rub a balloon on your head or rub your socks on the floor and their are more different ones. When you do theses things you can give some body a electric shock.
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