Can you convert electricity to static electricity?

Answer 1

Electricity is the flow of electron charge through a conductor and cannot be static unless you wish to measure the potential difference with a voltmeter,however static charge can be detected by gold leaf electroscope.

Answer 2

Yes, electricity can be converted to static electricity through processes like friction or induction. When objects become charged due to friction or contact with some material, they can hold static electricity until discharged.

Answer 3

Keep in mind that "electricity" is the flow of electrons through or along a conductor. Anything can be a conductor with a high enough charge. When the charge becomes sufficiently high, or if the static charge climbs rapidly, you will see its effects. You can't "see" electricity in any form. All you can see are its effects. The sparks you see associated with electricity are just ionised air. What you see are lightning (a spark traveling very quickly through the atmosphere), the arcing discharge from a generator to ground, the glow of small sparks between bed sheets in a dark room, the hair of school children standing on end from contact with a Van de Graff generator, gold leaf separating in a Leyden Jar.

Just adding to the answer already posted here. Any substance can become an electrical conductor when there is a large concentration of free electrons present there. Metals have a high concentration of free electrons and so are good conductors and as such cannot be used to produce static electricity. If you rub your feet on a dry rug, you can generate up to 10000 volts of charge but you would not feel it because the rug is not actually a conductor.

Answer 4

I got here because I was asking the same question. For several years my son, out of the blue while riding down the road exclaims to me that he see current racing along the power cables. This usually occurs when passing under the larger main power cables. The best description of what he sees that I can get out of him is that they are lumosent orbs traveling along the wires about a foot apart.

Answer 5

it is the electicity generated due to the existence of stationery charges

it is otherwise called electrostatics

Answer 6

Yes. Have you ever touch a light switch after walking over a carpet? Did you get a little shock? That's static electricity being discharged.

Answer 7

Yes, in a capacitor ("condenser").

The classic form is the Leyden Jar, with metal foil on the outside and inside forming the two plates of the capacitor.

Answer 8

Yes, it is entirely possible to see static electricity. Ever seen lightning? That is made up of electrons jumping to the earth. That's static electricity.

Answer 9

static electricity is electricity.

Answer 10

Lightnings.