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1. What is static electricity and how is it created?

Static electricity is an imbalance of charges on a surface.

It is created when electrons are discharged from one material to another via friction. So for example wool carpet will become positively charged when a balloon is rubbed against it as the electrons get discharged to the balloon which causes static or a shoo

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Chosen question: What is static electricity and how is it created?
Static electricity is basically composed of protons and electrons Static electricity is created when protons and neutrons are transferred which is when two objects are rubbed against eachother.

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2. Uses of static electricity and how long they have been used?

Uses
1. Photocopy items ~ Ranvir
The paper is charged with static electricity, and the ink gets attracted to the paper. The image and the ink have opposite charges, so they attract.

2. Paint cars ~ Arjit & KA
The car's surface is prepared and put into a paint booth. Then its give the paint an electrical charge and then spray a fine mist of paint into the booth. The charged paint particles are attracted to the car and stick to the body. Been used since 1886

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What is it? Objects made up of atoms and composed of protons and neutrons with a cloud of electrons surrounding the nucleus which means that the electrons are on the surface of every object. When these objects are rubbed against each other, some objects lose some electrons whereas some gain electrons. This builds up excess charge also known as static electricity.
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Myrra

How is it created:
Static electricity comes from rubbing things. Things such as nylon carpenters or metal doorknobs give the body a static charge. For e.g., if a person walks across the floor, it can discharge when the person would touch the doorknob; eventually giving the person a small electric shock. Static elecriitcaly is also connected to friction; hence the act of rubbing something harshly would produce a buildup of electrical energy. One example includes, rub your balloon to your head. A static charge is basically formed when two surfaces rub against each other; and the electrons move from one object to another. One object would have a positive charge and the other one a neagtive charge.
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Mehek

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what is static electricity and how is it created?
static electricity is a stable electric charge, usually delivered by contact, which causes starts or popping or the fascination of residue or hair.

Materials are made of molecules that are typically electrically unbiased on the grounds that they contain parallel quantities of positive charges (protons in their cores) and negative charges (electrons in shells encompassing the core). The wonder of friction based electricity requires a partition of positive and negative charges.

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What is static energy and how is it created?

Static energy is the immobile electric charge that has been accumulated in an object. This is mainly produced by the movement of friction, by the separation of positive and negative charges. When two pieces of material come into contact with one another, there is a possibility that the electrons travel from one material to another. This leads to an excess amount of positive charge on one of the materials and an equal amount of negative charge on the other material causing an imbalance and thus creating static energy. This leads to an action potential which is in the form of a spark, crackling, or the attraction of dust or hair.

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For Ahaan, Shivinder

Do electrons also transfer from objects  to create static energy?

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What is static electricity?

Most fundamentally, static electricity is when atoms that make up an object gain a charge. This can happen in a variety of ways, but teh most common is through friction. When two objects repeatedly come into contact with each other at a rapid pace (friction), it can cause the atoms making up one object to lose some of their electrons, while the other may gain those. It is not surprising that this happens, as different atoms are more stable either losing electrons or gaining electrons (there is a list of items that are most likely to swap electrons, known as the triboelectric list).  When this happens, atoms gain a charge due to the imbalance in electrons (the more electrons they lose the more positive their charge) - this is what we know as static electricity, and is quite common in our daily lives, and has an abundance of real-world applications. For example, after sliding your feet across a carpet, the electrons lost or gained by your body generate a charge, which is then discharged through attraction by a metal doorknob

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For Aryan, Aarav and Madhav
What are some real life applications for static electricity

For Myrra and Mehek
What are some real life applications for static electricity

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For Hridhika & Khushi

What are some examples of static electricity

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For Siya, Rishi, Sanaaya

Is there any way to know which objects/atoms are more likely to transfer electr

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For Sanaaya, Rishi,
What are some of the insulators for static electricity?

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Question:
Do you think static electricity will/can be useful in the future.

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Reply to the question from Sanaaya, Rishi and Siya

Question: Do electrons also transfer from objects to create static energy?
Ans: Yes

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For Arjit, Kaviish and Ranvir-

What happens when two items with positive charges come close to each other?

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Reply to Hridika and Khushi:
What are some real life applications for static electricity?

- Laser printers
- Photo copiers
- Furnaces

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Lightning is one example of static electricity, but on larger scale.

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Answer to question to Sanaaya, Rishi, Siya from Ahaan and Shivinder:
An insulator in this context is anything that does not readily conduct or allow the passage of electricity, more specifically electrons, through it. Items can generally be arranged according to their conductivity on a continuum, the ones with the lowest conductivity being considerrd insulators. This diagram shows the same:

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What happens when two items with positive charges come close to each other?

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Response to Arya S

The most common is through friction when to objects rub against each other.