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| Electricity is everywhere. It is in atoms. |
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| Build up of electric charge in one single location is called what? |
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| Which two people discovered static electricity? |
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| Charles Du Fay (studied frogs) and Benjamin Franklin (kite in the thunderstorm) |
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| What are the three different types of static electricity? |
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| Positive, negative, neutral |
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| Cotton, glass, and amber attract what? What do they repel? |
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| They attract negative, and repel positive |
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| Vinyl, silk, wool, and fur attract what? What do they repel? |
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| They attract positive, and repel negative. |
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| What is neutral attracted to? |
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| Both positively and negatively charged electrons. |
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| Where does electric charge come from? |
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| Electrons. Electrons surround the nucleus in the atom. |
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| Build up of electric charge is called what? |
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| 6.24 x 10 to the power of 18 |
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| How does a static charge occur? |
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| By build up of electrons in one place. |
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| What are some dangers in generating static electricity? |
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| Unwanted build up of electrons, and grounding too deep |
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| What charges repel each other? |
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| Like charges (Positive and positive, and negative and negative) |
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| What charges attract each other? |
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| Opposite charges (Positive and negative) |
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| What charges does a neutral charge attract? |
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| Either/both positive or negative. |
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| What causes a build up of electrons? |
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| Friction, conduction, lost electron object becomes positive, gained electron object becomes negative |
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