Static Electricity
Terms
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- lightning
- in the sky, a flash of bright light caused by the discharge of electricity between clouds, or between clouds and the ground
- conductor
- a material that allows electric charges or heat to move freely on and through it
- lightning rod
- a metal rod or wire attached to a building to prevent lightning damage by conducting the electrons to the ground
- neutral
- term referring to matter having neither a negative nor a positive electric charge
- spark
- an electric discharge; caused by electrons jumping from one conductor to another through the air
- insulator
- a material that does not allow electric charges or heat to move freely on or through it
- law of attraction and repulsion
- a law stating that like electric charges repel and unlike electric charges attract
- charged
- term referring to matter having an excess of electrons (a negative charge) or a deficiency of electrons (a positive charge)
- negative charge
- charge carried by electrons
- induction
- the process by which an object having an electric charge produces the same charge in a neighbouring object without actually touching it
- static electricity
- term referring to electric charges that are stationary, or at rest
- electric charge
- a property of matter having an excess of electrons (a negative charge) or a deficiency of electrons (a positive charge)
- electroscope
- a device for detecting the presence of electric charge
- positive charge
- charge carried by protons
- electrostatics
- the study of electrical charges that move very little
- electrostatic precipitator
- a device to control air pollution using stationary electric charges (not currents)
- electric charge
- a property of matter having an excess of electrons (a negative charge) or a deficiency of electrons (a positive charge)
- ground
- to connect a conductor through some conducting material directly to the ground, or Earth