Electricity and Magnetism

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  •  An electric current is the flow of charged particles.
  •  Magnetism and electricity are linked phenomena.

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Volta, the opera singer and the electric pistol

Alessandro Volta made many contributions to science. Most famously, the unit of potential difference is named after him. Volta...

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The explosive jacket

The BBC website reports the story of an Australian man, Frank Clewer, who went to a job interview wearing a nylon jacket and a...

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Sensational electric learning

Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius is perhaps best known for his work on the ionic disassociation of acids and bases, for which...

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Electric spiders

Gossamer spiders, also known as ballooning spiders, may use the Earth’s vertical atmospheric electric field to fly. The...

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