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Static (meaning it does not move) electricity is an electric charge which is stored. One way to generate static electricity is to rub two things together, and one of the materials picks up negatively charged electrons- making the item that has picked up electrons negative, and the other one positive. This charge does not move because of the material is resistant to flow, so there is no easy path for current flow. Capacitors store a static charge - an excess of electrons on on of the plates relative to the other plate. A capacitor can be 'charged up' via a battery or other voltage source.

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Static is a term that means motionless, or unchanging. Electrons have a (negative) charge. Electric current results from the flow of electrons along a conductor.

When a group of electrons is gathered in one location their charges are additive - more electrons gives more stored charge.

The Zap is when the static, stored, concentrated - i.e. high voltage - electric charge finds a path to move along and discharge.

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It is called static because from the word itself, static, means not moving or no action.

Please note that the more accurate term is "static charge" because it means a charge (surplus or deficiency of electrons) that is not moving.

The basic unit of charge is the coulomb, which is 1.24 x 1018 electrons. If 1 coulomb per second is flowing past a point in a circuit, that is a current of 1 amp.

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Because when we rub our hands then by rubbing after sometime a time comes when the transfer of charge of our one hand to the other hand became in statics position so the stage will be considered as static electricity.

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static means it doesn't move. Static electricity doesn't move, as it has no current. hence the name

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he electric charge at rest on the surface of an insulated body (which establishes and adjacent electrostatic field)

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