What creates static electricity?: Traditionally considered a physics problem, the answer is beginning to emerge from chemistry and other sciences

American Scientist

Volumn 100, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 316-323

  Williams, Meurig W ^a  

^a not available   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DESIGN; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRON; FRAGMENTATION; INSULATION; ION EXCHANGE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; POLYMER;

EID: 84868299205     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/2012.97.316     Document Type: Article

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