Shape and Charge: Faraday's Ice Pail Experiment Revisited

Electrically insulating objects gain a net electrical charge when brought in and out of contact. This phenomenon, known as triboelectrification, is very common and familiar to many of us from a car static zap, to the danger of ignition for hydrocarbons flowing through poorly grounded pipes, to the t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Zhang, J., Ciampi, Simone
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: AMER CHEMICAL SOC 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80749