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From: depolo@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Jeff DePolo)
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Subject: Re: HELP!
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Date: 29 Jan 91 03:15:12 GMT
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In article <1991Jan28.230849.29818@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu> sbrack@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Steven S. Brack) writes:
>>A Van de Graff generator produces STATIC electricity. STATIC electricity is
>>far less dangerous than conventional electricity, partly due to the very low
>>currents that are present. The other is the fact that STATIC electricity
>>tends to remain on the surface of an object as stored charges.
>
>Static electricity <> "conventional" electricity ?????
>
>Does this mean that still water & running water are different substances
>as well?

Maybe a better way to laymanize it is to say that static electricity
is just that - STATIC electricity.  That is, electricity that isn't 
moving, which is just an electric charge.  When you touch something,
it moves, i.e. the charge is moving, and becomes a current.

							--- Jeff
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