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Where do static charges usually go?

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14y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

As we know charges can neither be created nor be destroyed, they just transfer for one place to another.For eg. :- when we say that a body is negatively charged,then that doesn't mean the negative charge was created in the body, but it means that the charge is transferred from somewhere else. Usually the negatively charged particles escape into the atmosphere from the body when friction force is applied.

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