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The science of static electricity - Anuradha Bhagwat

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We’ve all had the experience: you’re walking across a soft carpet, you reach for the doorknob and … ZAP. But what causes this trademark jolt of static electricity? Anuradha Bhagwat sheds light on the phenomenon by examining the nature of matter.

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Educator
Anuradha Bhagwat
Director
Outis
Sound Designer
Cem Misirlioglu
Script Editor
Alex Gendler
Narrator
Pen-Pen Chen

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