So it sounds like Object A is donating some of its more extremely charged regions to Object B. While that isn't pedantically the same thing as donating electrons, from the POV of the level at which ...

The first documentation of static electricity dates back to 600 BCE. Even after 2,600 years’ worth of tiny shocks, however, researchers couldn’t fully explain how rubbing two objects together causes ...

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Rubbing two balloons together leads George to a shocking discovery. If you rub two identical balloons together, they both pick up a static charge. This strange and unexpected behavior has been ...

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Static electricity is the buildup of an electrical charge on the surface of an object. Lightning is the most dramatic and potentially lethal example of static discharge. A far more benign illustration ...

AccuWeather Meteorologist Geoff Cornish explains how static electricity works and why it's so prevalent in winter. Mississippi governor celebrates the state eliminating income tax Deion Sanders walks ...