do all triboelectric charges involve surfaces rubbing against each other?

 

WTF did that come from?

 

it came from science dun dun dunnnnnnnn

 

 

Last ladyfriend would've probably been up for that, but it fizzled out after 5 dates.

 

I could give you a general, "yes." But seeing as you asked the nice folks at Kindle last week (or two weeks ago), check with whatever they said.

 

A blitheringly drunken conversation, if memory serves.

 

It came from Amazon, from what I'm to understand.

 

you typed it into my Kindle - an ask kindle - remember?????

 

yes -

No. Some of the material cause triboelectric charges, when it come contact to each other and then separated.

... but by rubbing this material together the effect is greatly enhanced (as the material touch and separate many times)


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Snippet from wikipedia

Cause

Although the word comes from the Greek for "rubbing", tribos, the two materials only need to come into contact and then separate for electrons to be exchanged. After coming into contact, a chemical bond is formed between some parts of the two surfaces, called adhesion, and charges move from one material to the other to equalize their electrochemical potential. This is what creates the net charge imbalance between the objects. When separated, some of the bonded atoms have a tendency to keep extra electrons, and some a tendency to give them away, though the imbalance will be partially destroyed by tunneling or electrical breakdown (usually corona discharge). In addition, some materials may exchange ions of differing mobility, or exchange charged fragments of larger molecules.

The triboelectric effect is only related to friction because they both involve adhesion. However, the effect is greatly enhanced by rubbing the materials together, as they touch and separate many times. For surfaces with differing geometry, rubbing may also lead to heating of protrusions, causing pyroelectric charge separation which may add to the existing contact electrification, or which may oppose the existing polarity. Surface nano-effects are not well understood, and the atomic force microscope has made sudden progress possible in this field of physics.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboelectric_effec