electrostatics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of electrostatics
Vocabulary lists containing electrostatics
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Example Sentences
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The work serves as a new framework for further investigations into the role of electrostatics in ecology.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2025
For benzene derivatives, substituent effects generally follow the trends expected on the basis of electrostatics, with increasingly electron-withdrawing substituents contributing to an enhanced positive electrostatic potential above and below the π face, strengthening the interaction.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
Figure 18.39 Xerography is a dry copying process based on electrostatics.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
Perhaps Coulomb would have received it for his law of electrostatics, formulated in 1798 and Benjamin Franklin might even have received it for demonstrating that lightning is a form of electricity.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 16, 2014
Jan. 17th.—I am learning a great deal of electrostatics in consequence of the perpetual cross-examination to which I am subjected.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Robert Louis Stevenson
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