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No, it's much stronger.

Take two metal balls, each with one kilogram of mass, set them down 1 meter apart,

and measure the gravitational force between them.

Then take two tissue paper balls, put one coulomb of charge on each one, set them down 1 meter apart,

and measure the electrical force between them.

The force between the coulombs is about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times

as strong as the gravitational force between the kilograms. (that's about 1040.)

You can pick up pieces of tissue with a little bit of electrical charge on a comb or a balloon ...

that little bit of charge on a comb is stronger than the whole earth's gravity pulling the bits

of tissue downward.

Also, you can't pick up bits of tissue with a Bowling ball, no matter how heavy it is,

if it's not charged. Gravity isn't strong enough.

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