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- From: kimball@stsci.edu (Timothy Kimball)
- Subject: Re: What causes electrical shock?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.210858.25428@stsci.edu>
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- Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 21:08:58 GMT
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- Daniel Jonathan Clute (djclute@cwis.unomaha.edu) wrote:
- : On a recent vacation, I stayed in a hotel room full of static;
- : whenever I tried to turn on a light, I was shocked.
-
- Ah, but you haven't lived until you've seen and heard large, blue,
- static sparks flashing around in the hotel bedsheets
- every time you move them, as I did in Holiday Inn, Columbus, Ohio.
-
- I know that shocks are caused by a charge imabalance bewteen
- your body and whatever you're going to touch.
- _I'd_ like to know what causes the charge imbalance.
-
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- /* tdk -- Opinions are mine, not my employer's. */
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