What Is Electricity
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Today's scientific question is: What in the world is electricity? And where
does it go after it leaves the toaster? Here is a simple experiment that
will teach you an important electrical lesson: On a cool, dry day, scuff
your feet along a carpet, then reach your hand into a friends mouth and
touch ....
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.... the circuit.
AMAZING ELECTRONIC FACT:
If you scuffed your feet long enough without touching anything, you would
build up so many electrons that your finger would explode! But this is
nothing to worry about... unless you have carpeting. Although we modern
persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc. for
granted. Hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things,
which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in. Then
along came the first Electr ....
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