Now that you know your electroscope works, you can use it to test the static electricity present in other materials. To do this, first discharge your electroscope by touching the pan with your finger.

The film discusses various chemical processes, particularly focusing on oxidation and reduction reactions involving elements like hydrogen, oxygen, coke, magnesium, and aluminum. It explains how ...

Chemistry & Physics. Physics 802: Transferring Static Charge. Season 2 Episode 802 | 30m. Transferring Static Charge: Induction and conduction as methods of transferring static charge are compared.

THE following striking experiment to show the rapidity of the influence of sulphuric acid in removing the invisible film of moisture that in ordinary circumstances ...

SCIENCE Balloon manufacturers once charged $100 each for sounding balloons not more than 40 inches in diameter. Now investigators of the upper air can get the same balloons for $2 each. Last summer ...

AT a meeting of the Philosophical Society of Glasgow on December 22, 1880, I gave a very brief preliminary account of some experiments that I have been making, along with Sir William Thomson, with ...