The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE. Even after 2,600 years’ worth of tiny shocks, however, ...

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Anyone who has ever pet a cat or shuffled their feet across the carpet knows that rubbing objects together generates static ...

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W e have known about the phenomenon of static electricity since at least the time of Aristotle. Aristotle credits fellow philosopher Thales of Miletus, who lived between 640 and 546 BCE, with the ...

Researchers have long been puzzled by the phenomenon of static electricity generated by rubbing objects together. After more ...

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