electrostatics
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of electrostatics
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"We live in an electrical world, electricity is all around us, but the electrostatics of small organisms remains mostly an enigma," Ortega-Jiménez says.
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
Classical electrostatics has an important role to play in modern molecular biology.
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
With the aid of this apparatus, the principal facts of electrostatics can be experimentally verified, as follows:— Experiment I.—Place one tea-tray bottom side uppermost upon three warm tumblers as legs.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various
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