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PROBLEM: how do charged objects interact with each other?

how did identical charged objects interact with each other? For example, how did one charged comb interact with the second charged comb?
PLEASE HELP I WOULD SO APPRACTIATE IT
like :
plastic comb (charged object in hand)
plastic comb(Charged object on watchglass)

How did differently charged objects interact with one another?
Conclusion:
how do neutral objects interact with charged objects?

how do charged objects interact with other charged objects?

How is this information useful in society?

2007-10-13 05:02:56 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Chemistry

2 answers

Electricity is one of the basic forces that holds our universe together (and keeps it apart).

The basic rule is like charges repel and opposites attract. So if the comb is stripped of its electrons then it becomes positively charged and it can attract negatively charged items. Neutrally charged items don’t react or attract each other, but it is fairly easy to add or strip electrons and then change the charge to get them react. Also most elements and molecules have some sort of charge in them.

When you positively charge a comb, you rub it against a piece of cloth or wool and add additional electrons form the cloth or wool. Now you can hold the comb over some negative charged things and attract them like a magnet attracts iron. When the electrons balance out then the charge is removed and the objects will fall. If you rub your feet along the rug when it is cold and dry then there is a good chance you will build up a static charge and if you touch something metal like a door knob then you discharge the static charge in one tiny bolt of lightning and get a small shock. The earth does the same thing with clouds passing over head, or when the clouds rub against each other. This creates the powerful and all too familiar lightning.

Of course we all know of the standard electricity that comes out of a wall socket and powers our devices. Generators build up a negative electrical charge and conduct it through wires to your home and business. The power runs through our electronic devices and runs them then it returns to the wall outlet, a complete circuit from negative to positive is needed to have an electrical flow. In your car they don’t have wires that run back to the battery instead they ground out the charge against the metal body of the car, but the principle is the same. The electrons flow to the ground themselves out and balance the positive charge.

In chemistry electrons have several roles. First the methods that atoms use to combine with each other is with an exchange and sharing of electrons. In a molecule of water the Oxygen atom shares two electrons with two hydrogen atoms thus we write the formula as H2O (2 hydrogen atoms to 1 oxygen atom). The Periodic Table of elements helps us figure out how this works. It is based on the theory of quantum mechanics where all atoms try to get 8 electrons in their outer shell. Noble gases are gases like helium that normally have 8 electrons in there outer orbit or a stable number. Since the inner orbital shell can only hold 2 electrons helium is a noble gas, which means it won’t react with other chemicals so it doesn’t burn. It is chemically neutral and we use noble gases like argon to replace the air in our light bulbs so the filament won’t burn, just glow.

Neutrally charged items DON”T react with each other, but we don’t have very many of them; like I said only the noble gases are the ones that are truly neutral all other elements have a charge on them. A neutron is the subatomic particle that has a neutral charge. It lies in the nuclease of the atom and helps to keep the atom nuclease together and to keep the electrons out; if they hit the protons they would ground each other out. When an atom is large like Uranium it has too many neutrons inside to be stable it releases those neutrons as radioactivity and the atoms decay into other smaller elements. This can take a millions of years though so it becomes quite dangerous. Isotopes are atoms that have more neutrons than normal. In Uranium 238 (it has 3 more neutrons than normal Uranium 235) it is possible to refine it with a centrifuge and through other processes to create plutonium which is used in atomic bombs (hydrogen bombs use an atomic bomb to start the process of fusion). When an atomic bomb blows up it does so in a runaway process called fission where the neutron bombardment goes too far and a few pounds of uranium or plutonium can create an explosion that is the same as hundreds, thousands or millions of tons of TNT.

When you add extra neutrons you get what is called an isotope. Carbon 14 is an isotope and since all life on earth is based on carbon we can used this radioactive isotope to determine the age of something like bones or clay. The process calculates the amount of Carbon 14 present in the sample. When the creature the made it dies it stops absorbing carbon so the Carbon 14 level won’t change EXCEPT through radioactive decay. This tells us how old it is.

In medicine radioactive isotopes are used to either give radiation treatments to cancer patients or short lived isotopes are injected into the body and then we can study the body by how they travel through the bloodstream. We can detect blood clots this way and since the thyroid absorbs iodine we can trace the path and absorption rate with radioactive iodine. We can also use a lot of radioactive iodine to treat a cancer in the thyroid.

Ions are atoms that have too many or too few electrons and they can form strange chemical bonds, with dangerous implications. Normally oxygen likes to bond with itself forming O2, but when it gets high in the atmosphere it absorbs a lot of solar energy and radiation which can convert it to O3; ozone. This is a major component of smog and is a known cancer agent. Other Radical Ions are known to cause serious problems from Parkinson’s disease, to many forms of cancer, and the aging process.

Einstein’s Unified Field Theory combines all the fundamental forces of the universe and the primary force is electromagnetism. The other force is gravity and we know very little about it, not even what particle conducts it.

2007-10-13 06:14:31 · answer #1 · answered by Dan S 7 · 0 0

As you likely already know, charge is commonly denoted as "negative" and "positive".

Items with the same types of charge will repel each other.

Items with opposite charges will attract each other.

Items with neutral charges typically have no effect on other items regardless of their charges.

This information helps us explain a large array of things, some of them being magnets, batteries and the interaction of microscopic particles.

Hope this helps!

2007-10-13 05:07:43 · answer #2 · answered by frisbinator 2 · 0 0

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