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Friction strips electrons so the rubbed amber would take on a negative charge. Actually, friction causes charges to shift. Charges are indeed stripped from something, but they are collected up by something else. Amber does, indeed, become negatively charged by rubbing it with, say, fur. The phenomon is called triboelectric effect. And a link is provided.
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What caused the amber to repel other objects when not rubbed?
Not all objects became electrified, objects "electrified" by the same machine appeared to repel each other (like magnets of the same charge); and objects "electrified" in different ways (one by touching an electric machine, for example, and the other, say, by rubbing amber) would attract each other (like magnets of opposite charge).
What type of charge does plastic collect when rubbed?
positive
What happens when cheese is rubbed with a piece of paper?
Please tell me the answer
The earliest known records describing electric charge involve the use of?
Amber
How is the purity of gold measured?
By having the sample rubbed with a piece of cotton wool rinsed in nitric acid and comparing the colour against a set of known purities.
What charge does amber get when rubbed with nylon?
Nylon - positive chargeAmber - negative charge
Explain clearly what happened when Thales rubbed the amber with the silk cloth?
it created an electrical charge
What was the first experiment with static electricity?
By BC 600, a philosopher by name Thales rubbed fur by amber and found that rubbed amber attracts piece of fine particles. This was the first experiment conducted I think so.
What is the definition of electrical charge?
Benjamin Franklin was the man that defined negative and positive charge. In the nineteenth century, positive and negative charge was known as vitreous and resinous charge, respectively.Franklin defined negative charge as the charge of a piece of amber after being rubbed against glass.
What happened when thale rubbed the amber with silk cloth?
when amber is rubbed with silk cloth +ve charge comes on silk cloth and -ve on amber due to interaction between their molecules, so is that when we comb our hairs , then -ve charge comes on comb and +ve on hairs,so when we bring silk cloth near the comb they attract each other due to 'ving opposite charges
What Thales rubbed with silk?
Amber
What happened when Thales rubbed the amber and the silk cloth?
Thales of Miletus, a Greek philosopher, discovered that rubbing amber with silk created an electric charge in the amber which caused objects to be attracted to it. If rubbed enough, it created a spark, much like we receive when we walk on carpet and touch a doorknob and see, hear and feel the spark.
What did Thales of Miletos do to create a static electric charge?
he rubbed amber and it could pick up pieces of sticks, fur, wool or straw!
Amber was used by the greeks to study what?
The Greeks used the amber to study the concept of magnetism for the first time . They observed that it acquires a strange property of attracting tiny bits of papers,metal pieces etc. when rubbed with a piece of wool .this strange characteristic of it made the further discoveries possible.+++That's not magnetism but static electricity, the charge being developed by rubbing the amber with the dry cloth. Amber is non-magnetic.
Why is Electricity called Electricity?
It comes from the Greek word "electron." However, to the Greeks that word didn't mean what it does to us; it meant the material we call amber. It's called that because one of the first noticed electrical phenomena was that if you rubbed a piece of amber with a cloth you could build up a static charge and make a small spark.
What is the sentence of amber?
I have found a piece of amber.
What happens when Amber is rubbed with fur?
Nothing happens. If it is not real amber just rubbing it will give off the scent of plastic.
