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You get a shock when electrons move from a negatively charged surface to a less negatively charged surface. You see a shock then the electrond flow through the air... and ZAP... you feel it too. The electricity has an "easier" time moving though the air when it is dry, so you need less of a charge to get a shock. When there's more moisture in the air, it's tougher! It's the other way around. Moist air conducts electricity better than dry air, so charge bleeds off quickly. When the air is dry, the electrons can hang around on your body for a long time, charging you up to thousands of volts. That can last until you touch something that can conduct them away, like a doorknob or your significant other. Electronics manufacturers have a devil of a time with static jumping onto sensitive parts and damaging them. Electronic assembly areas typically have to keep the humidity above a specified level (maybe 40%) to reduce the charge on the workers.
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∙ 17y ago
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∙ 13y agoThe humidity in the winter is very low. Moisture tends to bleed off the ions that cause the build up of static electricity. Addition of humidifiers to the environment can reduce the incidence of static shocks.
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∙ 12y agomoisture can't travle through wet things as well.
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∙ 11y agoThis is because in winter, the air is dryer and thus there is less moisture in the air, which is why there is more static
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∙ 14y agothe humidity in winter is lower
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∙ 15y agothe air is dryer
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Why you are likely to receive a shock after walking across a carpet when the air is dry than when the air is humid?
That shock is caused by static electricity, or the build-up of charge on an object. As you do something that will help build that charge (like scuff along a carpet), static electricity on your person increases. Water is a better conductor of electricity than dry air. In humid air, the static electricity will be slowly discharged as it contacts the water vapor. When there is no water vapor, the static electricity is not conducted away from your body as it builds up, and it accumulates. At some point, you come close to a good conductor of electricity - a metal object, for instance - and the built-up charge discharges.
What is produced when static electricity is discharged in the air?
An atmospheric discharge of static electricity is called lightning.
Describe one technological use of static electricity?
One technological use of static electricity is in car painting, where the spray nozzle is connected to a negative electrode. The car part is charged with opposite charge, where the paint droplets are attracted to the car body part.
How can generation of electricity causes air pollution?
it can cause bog
How does thunder work?
Thunder is the sound produced by lightning. Lighting is an enormous discharge of static electricity, which superheats the air along a narrow channel. The air expands rapidly, producing a shockwave we hear as thunder.
Can you get static elecricty from the air?
Technically you can not get static electricity from the air. But, static electricity does depend on the air. during the winter, there is more of a chance you will be shocked.
Why is static electricity worse in the winter than the summer?
Frictional electricity is observed more in winter than summer because of the static electricity which happens more in winter than in summer. Static electricity usually results when to materials that are dissimilar are rubbed together.
How does one produce static electricity?
When the air is dry static electricity is more enhanced and noticeable than when the air is humid. Things with the same charge repel each other. You can produce static electricity by rubbing a balloon in your hair. It will cause your hair to stand up and the balloon will be able to stick to a wall. Also if you have on rubber sole shoes and you drag them along a carpet the first person you touch will be shocked by static electricity.
How does humidity level affect the amount of static electricity that can be build up on a balloon?
It affects by not allowing as much static electricity to stay on the balloon's surface. When the air has more moisture in it (humidity), the static electricity picked up is more likely to disperse in the air than stay on the surface area. As it's the opposite when the air is dry....when the balloon picks up the static electricity, it is more likely to hold on to it than in dryer air than disperse it like it does in warmer air.
Why is static more noticeable in winter than in the summer?
For the same reason that static electricity is; colder air is dryer, and more conducive to stasis.
Why does dry air cause static electricity?
moisture can't travle through wet things as well.
Is it easier to generate static electricity in a dry room or a humid room?
When the air is dry, static electricity is enhanced and more noticeable because of the easiness in transfer of electrons.
Why does a helicopter generate static electricity?
Any aircraft moving through the air generates static electricity.
How static electricity is used in cleaning polluted air?
Static electricity attracts dust, soot, and other pollutants form passing air or smoke.
Is lighting static electricity?
Yes, it is static electricity caused by the charge build up from the movement of air over the earth.
What is produced when static electricity is discharged into the air?
Ozone
How can static electricity help not to pollute the air?
Static electricity can't because first off it all it is the transferreing of electrons to other atoms. It can atucallty pollute the air.
