Static electricity is a build up of electric charge on an object, and it can have some pretty strange effects. See, everything around us is made up of atoms which have a positively charged nucleus ...

6. Rub the end of the balloon on your hair or shirt. Pulling the tape from the roll causes electrons to be stripped off the tape, giving both strips a positive charge. When two objects have the same ...

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That current is what’s known as an electrostatic discharge: electrons from a negatively charged object jump to a positively charged one if they’re close enough. The discharge is what you feel ...