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Grounding is the process of removing the excess charge on an object by means of the transfer of electrons between it and another object of substantial size. When a charged object is grounded, the excess charge is balanced by the transfer of electrons between the charged object and a ground. A ground is simply an object which serves as a seemingly infinite reservoir of electrons; the ground is capable of transferring electrons to or receiving electrons from a charged object in order to neutralize that object.
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∙ 14y agoThe ground can be used either as a source or a sink for electrons. Therefore, the ground can provide excess or can absorb excess electrons from object, making it neutral.
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∙ 14y agoYes because the extra electrons will move to the ground.
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∙ 14y agoIt becomes electrically discharged.
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How do charged objects attract neutral objects?
Some neutral objects have a weak dipole force where electron distribution is random across the whole object, and at any one given time, one side may be slightly more positive than the other. This attraction is very weak but it happens frequently especially in solutions.
What happens with electrons when objects become positively or negatively charged?
The same thing happens for both, if the electroscope is positvely charged it attracts electrons to the top and sends protons to the leaves causing them to repel and visaversa with negative.
Does an object which is positively charged contains all protons and no electrons?
No; at least, not necessarily. To be positively charged, and object simply needs to contain *more* protons than electrons. Inversely, the same is true of negatively charged objects, which only need to have more electrons than protons.
How does an object get a positive or a negative charge?
An object gives up one or more protons to get a positively charged objects and absorbs one or more electrons to get a negatively charged objects. This happens when two objects are rubbed together (ex. when you rub your feet on the carpet to give some one a shock;rubbing balloon on one's hair)
An electrically neutral object can be attracted by a positively charged object because?
A neutral pith ball is still "charged", it just doesn't display excessively charged behavior. Since it is neutral, having nearly equal positive and negative charge, the proximity of the positively charged pith ball still attracts the negative charge present in the ball, inducing polarization moving the ball closer to the positively charged one. Once they make contact, the conductibility of the pith ball quickly accepts excess charge from the other, creating a like charge repulsion.
What are two different ways charged objects can be discharged?
One is grounding
How charged objects react with neutral objects and same charged objects?
Charged objects don't have an effect on neutral objects, and repel objects with like charges.
If some amount of positive charge is given to a soap bubble what will happen to it?
It will be attracted to any negatively charged objects and repelled by any positively charged objects. It will probably be mildly attracted by neutral objects but this would be a much smaller effect.
How do positively charged objects differ from negatively charged objects?
Positively charged objects have more protons than electrons. Negatively charged objects have more electrons than protons.
What is the process of bringing a negatively charged conductor in contact with the earth resulting in the conductor discharge until it is completely neutral called?
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What property does earth have that enables grounding to drain static charged?
Earth is like a very large CONDUCTOR. That is how grounding occurs.
What effect do positive and negative charges have on one another?
Positively and negatively charged objects attract one another.
How do neutral objects behave toward charged objects?
They do not react to charged particles.
What effect does grounding have on a charged object?
To ground an object means to connect it through a conductor to the ground, or Earth. Grounding is a way to prevent an electric charge from building on an object, or to get rid of an electric charge.
What is general rule for for how charged objects interact?
what is the general rule for how charged objects interact
What is the interaction between charged objects?
The interaction between charged objects is called electromagnetism.
What do you call materials which can be used to discharge a charged object to the earth?
Grounding conductors
