electrostatic
Americanadjective
adjective
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of, concerned with, producing, or caused by static electricity
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concerned with electrostatics
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Vocabulary lists containing electrostatic
Electricity and Magnetism - Middle School
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It’s also supplying electrostatic chucks — a semiconductor-manufacturing component critical to the memory-chip boom.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
But increasingly, the company is applying its ceramics expertise to make electrostatic chucks, a chip-manufacturing component.
From MarketWatch • May 2, 2026
The goal is to determine when and how ionospheric disturbances might exert meaningful electrostatic effects on the Earth's crust.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
They confirmed that the process is powered by electrostatic induction.
From Science Daily • Oct. 15, 2025
Tuve moved on to an electrostatic generator invented by a Princeton University engineer named Robert Van de GraafF.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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