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No, gas particles can touch each other when they collide.

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Do atoms ever physically touch each other?

No, atoms do not physically touch each other because they are surrounded by electron clouds that repel each other due to electromagnetic forces.


Would the leaves of an electroscope ever be able to attract to each other?

No, the leaves of an electroscope will not attract to each other. When the leaves of an electroscope become charged due to an electric field or charge presence, they will repel each other due to like charges. Attraction between the leaves is not possible in this scenario.


What does it mean when you feel electric when you touch things such as steel?

It may be possible that you had a charge in your body or something like that and you came in contact with somethingthat's a conductor of electricity. It happens to me all the time. Ever go and rub your socks on the rug and go to touch someone else and you shock them? It's the same concept, but it's with metal contact.


Is gravity a force that can attract and repel?

If there were such a material as negative mass, then the formula for the force of gravity predicts that a negative and a positive mass would repel each other. But nothing has ever been discovered yet that behaves like negative mass, so as far as has ever yet been observed, gravity is always an attractive force.


Why does a magnet's pole attract or repel?

One side has a positive charge and the other a negative. Only the opposites will connect or attached each other. The same charge will actually push or repel the other one away. You ever heard the saying, 'opposites attract? That's why.