Incandescent light bulbs need high current at low voltage.
"Static" electricity is low or zero current at extremely high voltage. So no, you can't use it to light up an incandescent bulb. If you had some way to step the current up and step down the voltage, then maybe you could do it.
However, if you rub a fluorescent tube with newspaper or with cloth, the tube will flash. Fluorescent tubes need high voltage to work. Perform this trick in a darkened room so you don't miss the dim light. (This trick needs a dry environment. So do it in an airconditioned room. During humid weather it may not work!)
Also, you can use "static" or high-voltage electricity to light up a small neon pilot bulb. Some hardware or electronic stores sell these lights. Look for tiny "NE-2" or "NE-83" bulbs. If you hold one wire of the neon bulb, then scuff your shoes on the carpet, then touch the other wire against a large metal object, the bulb will give an orange flash. Instead of creating a spark, you created an orange glow in neon gas.
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Nope, Carpet will generate Static electricity and a light bulb needs AC or DC current.
Static electricity is a build up of positive and negative electrons that get close enough to interact with each other briefly. This leads to you getting a small shock if you say rub your feet in wool socks against carpet and then touch something metal. However the electrical charge in these reactions is very small, and there is no sustained current. The electricity in a light bulb is a continuously flowing current, so long as it's switched on. That heats a filament in the bulb that reacts to the gas in the vacuum of the bulb. The concepts are effectively similar except one part. Static is just a built up charge that is released. While the light bulb is a continuous flow of electricity so long as the light is turned on.
electricity because a light bulb needs electricity
If it is just you, the light bulb and the balloon....no. That is just static electricity and is very low voltage and ampheres. If that light bulb is plugged in to a lamp that is plugged into a socket, very possibly yes. That static electricity could be greatly magnified by stray voltage and cause you some serious grief.
Light is not electricity; it is an electromagnetic wave. It is anything but static; the speed of light is 186,000 miles/sec.
Yes, you can flash a fluorescent tube with static electricity. Once the static potential difference is equalized the tube will go out. <<>> Static electricity is discharged with a spark in a fraction of a second. Florescent bulbs stay on for long periods of time. Perhaps it could operate a strobe light one time every few minutes. A strobe light does not provide enough light to be useful for anything except photography and dancing at a club!
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Electricity + Glass = Light bulb
how to stop static electricity from a light weight rayon dress
It causes friction while rubbing up against the cell membrane, lighting the cell up like a light bulb and static electricity is made causing electricity to be formed