Talk:Contact electrification
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[edit] Merge
I started adding some info about contact electrification in general to triboelectric effect. I now see that triboelectric specifically refers to different materials, so I will remove that info. I think maybe the two articles should be merged, however. I see that neither article seems to be aware of the other. - Omegatron 19:10, August 7, 2005 (UTC)
- It seems to me there's a huge amount of history that could be added to Triboelectric effect, and also all the other phenomena mentioned here, so I've removed the merge tags. I'll try to bring more attention to them from historians of science. -- Beland 01:51, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
The effect is most pronounced with two dissimilar materials, but it can happen with, say, two identical objects at different temperatures as well.
