Static Electricity from Water

Here is a fascinating, old device: Lord Kelvin’s water drop static electricity generator.

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Here is a physics class demonstration of it.

Do my drops suffer from this distortion? Well, I don’t have such a generator built (yet), so I don’t have just this effect going on. But, I do believe that I see the shape of drops changing in response to static charge. I need to do some more experiments with this.

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3 Responses to Static Electricity from Water

  1. Kevin Nacer says:

    Can you give more details on this?

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