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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Origin of electrostatic
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Electricity and Magnetism - Middle School
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But when Walker and Auen plunge our cipher, Béatrice, into the world of sparse electrostatic video, the result is both harrowing and unbelievably beautiful.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
Van Tassel said he received telepathic instructions for building a metal-free dome that could generate electrostatic energy and eventually help rejuvenate cells and make time travel possible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026
The team also examined how neighboring edge states interact, finding that their energy levels shift because of a combination of electrostatic interactions and quantum tunneling.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
It’s also supplying electrostatic chucks — a semiconductor-manufacturing component critical to the memory-chip boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
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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