What causes static electricity? And what actually happens when you get shocked? Visitors of the Electricity Party exhibit at the Bakken Museum in south Minneapolis are making the best of the ...

Discover the fascinating world of static electricity through simple balloon experiments. You'll learn how static charges build up through friction, how they attract or repel objects, and see everyday ...

Today, controlled use of contact electrification underlies entire industries such as digital printing; but when uncontrolled, it causes problems ranging from fried electronics to fatal explosions.

Electrets produce a semi-permanent static electric field, similar to how a magnet produces a magnetic field. The ones in microphones are very small, but in the video after the break [Jay Bowles ...

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The evolution of static electricity by evaporation was illustrated by pouring water into a small heated vessel placed on the electrometer. This mode ot excitiag electricity possesses peculiar ...

(FOX 2) - It has only been a few days since the deadly explosion that killed a five ... 4-year-old boy and his grandma were killed when static electricity inside caused it to erupt in flames.