| Electrical conduction is the net motion of electric charge, and it cannot take place without the motion of matter on some scale. |
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| Hendrik Schon claimed to have found a way of injecting electric charge into organic crystals, enabling him to turn insulators into conductors. |
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| A molecule with a permanent separation of electric charge has a permanent dipole moment and is said to be polar molecule. |
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| Atoms of two or more elements can also combine to form a polyatomic ion, a chemically distinct species with an electric charge. |
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| In short, they are similar to electric charge, isospin, and all the other internal quantum numbers of elementary particles. |
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| The accumulation of excessive electric charge in dielectric insulation is extremely rare, but when it does occur, it is often catastrophic. |
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| In solution, these strands have a slight negative electric charge, a fact that makes for some fascinating chemistry. |
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| But quite unlike photons, gluons do carry color charge, the analog of electric charge. |
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| If the distribution of moving electric charge is not symmetric, the magnetic field will also be unsymmetric. |
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| The farad, a measure of a device's capacity to store electric charge, probably doesn't do full justice to his contributions to science. |
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| The higher the value is the more electric charge can be stored, thereby indicating that a substance is superior as a condenser material. |
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| The atmospheric electrical system is sustained by naturally occurring processes which exchange and release electric charge. |
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| The film measures the compression force, which is seen in the form of the electric charge of opposite surfaces. |
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| The boundaries between grains act like barriers to electric charge carriers, impeding the flow of current. |
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| For electromagnetism, the coupling constant is proportional to the square of the electric charge. |
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| However, be aware that poured beads are extremely light-weight and take a static electric charge very easily. |
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| Scientists in Japan have made the first device that can convert solar energy into electricity and then store the resulting electric charge. |
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| Therefore for a highly charged object, the electric charge will attempt to move into the ground. |
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| Electron: A stable elementary particle having a negative electric charge of 1.6 x 10-19 coloumbs and a mass of 9.1 x 10-31 kg. |
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| Water molecules have poles of positive and negative electric charge that are known to create attractive forces between cells, known as van der Waals forces. |
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| Proton: A stable elementary particle found in the nucleus of atoms with a positive electric charge of 1.6 x 10-19 kg. |
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| It also causes a certain amount of electric charge to accumulate. |
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| There was enough of an electric charge for one of the elements on the electrical panel that I had accidentally touched to burn. |
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| A build-up of electric charge on one chip then induces a corresponding build-up on the other, by a process known as capacitive coupling. |
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| Regardless of the type of vessel, appropriate ventilation and electric charge dissipation are critical. |
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| The heart of an LED is a small semiconductor chip that generates light when it receives an electric charge. |
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| An atom or group of atoms that carries a positive or negative electric charge as a result of having lost or gained one or more electrons. |
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| Using Faraday's law, the known amount of the electric charge is converted into the amount of water that the initial sample originally contained. |
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| The organic-based solvent that enables lithium batteries to store an electric charge is flammable and volatile, she explains. |
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| Photons, of electromagnetic field fame, will couple to any particle that has electric charge. |
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| All insulating substances may accumulate static electric charge which can give rise to sparks and induce fire. |
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| In the electret microphone, an electric charge is permanently »frozen« in the diaphragm or in the back plate. |
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| The sun's surface layer is divided into alternating bands of electric charge, either positive or negative, and each band has a different magnetic polarity. |
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| The job of the Plasma Contractor Unit is to take away the electric charge carried by the space plasma. |
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| The copper emits a small electric charge that keeps the slugs and snails away. |
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| A snap-in device feeds a small electric charge into a ring of conductive fibres that encircles the chest. |
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| The ozone is produced in the ozone generator by means of an electric charge created through dielectric ceramic plates. |
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| Electrostatic methods are normally used, such as the field mill, which measures induced electric charge, or an ultra-high-impedance electrometer voltmeter. |
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| Phenomenon in which an atom, a molecule, or radical either gains or loses one or several electrons, thereby endowing it with an electric charge. |
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| In contrast to an electric circuit through which electric charge flows, nothing actually flows in a magnetic circuit. |
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| A metal-leaf electroscope is a laboratory apparatus that may be used to detect the presence of electric charge on an object. |
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| The only things they can know about the material trapped within the black hole horizon is its total mass, its total angular momentum, and its total electric charge. |
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| This moisture is transferred from the subject to the emulsion surface of the photographic film and causes an alternation of the electric charge pattern on the film. |
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| Copper conducts electricity easily, so any static electric charge on your body zips harmlessly through the plate to the ground outside. |
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| Amperage describes the amount of current in a circuit, which is the rate at which electric charge flows past a point in a circuit. |
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| So every time he walked near the defendant, he hummed out a soft little bzzzt, like the sound of an electric charge going through wires. |
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| The properties of particles include mass, electric charge, and position. |
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| Has his electric charge kept him up at night? |
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| Minuscule and devoid of electric charge, though, they pass unnoticed. |
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| When an electron radiates a photon, electric charge is conserved. |
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| Applying an electric charge to the liquid crystals causes the molecules they are made up of to realign themselves, altering the transparency of that layer. |
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| A packaging material comprising an electret material having a surface part carrying mutually oppositely polarized electric charge on the front surface and the rear surface thereof. |
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| However, if the same image is displayed for a long time, a slight difference in electric charge accumulates between the two electrodes which encase the liquid crystal. |
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| Functionally they are quite different in that an electric detonation is initiated by an electric charge, whereas an electronic detonator is initiated by a specifically coded signal sent to an integrated microprocessor. |
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| However, they cause an electric charge on the body surface which can result in movement of body hairs or spark discharges, such as those experienced when touching a doorknob after walking on a carpet. |
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| The spinning antineutron, like the ordinary neutron, has a net electric charge of zero, but its magnetic polarity is opposite to that of a similarly spinning neutron. |
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| Piezoelectricity, appearance of positive electric charge on one side of certain nonconducting crystals and negative charge on the opposite side when the crystals are subjected to mechanical pressure. |
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| The researchers speculate that the positive electric charge on one of the polymers may be the bait, since many bacteria are negatively charged and would thus be attracted electrostatically to the polymer in question. |
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| In particular, they have worked out how to produce the display itself, by sandwiching tiny spheres that change colour in response to an electric charge inside thin sheets of flexible, transparent plastic. |
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| This machine shatters minuscule amounts of a sample into its component atoms, ionises those atoms in order to give them an electric charge, and then uses that charge to attract the atoms along a tube. |
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| Light falling on to this layer creates an electric charge. |
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| Fuses interrupt the current through the melting of a conductor brought about by overheating due to an abnormal increase in the electric charge passing through it. |
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| Static electric charge can be created by liquid freely falling through air, and can result in sparks which can cause ignition of a flammable atmosphere. |
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| In principle, the substances dissolved in the liquid can thus be separated on the basis of molecular size, but their electric charge also plays an important role. |
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| An electric charge may cause gas or dust to ignite! |
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| An electrostatic motor is based on the attraction and repulsion of electric charge. |
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| An accelerating electric charge is known to emit electromagnetic waves according to the Larmor formula in classical electromagnetism. |
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| The simplest static black holes have mass but neither electric charge nor angular momentum. |
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| Color charge is a fundamental property of quarks, which has analogies with the notion of electric charge of particles. |
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| Quarks have electric charge and therefore also can induce magnetic fields when they move, but gluons are uncharged. |
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| By irradiating the carbon particles with ultraviolet light, the device imparts a positive electric charge to them. |
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| Ions are atoms that have an electric charge and by nature are inclined to take part in reactions. |
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| A much more powerful and simpler-to-control asteroid tractor would use electric charge. |
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| The neutrino could account for the missing energy, but a particle with little mass and no electric charge was difficult to observe. |
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| By using lysine to control electric charge in their experiments, the researchers had unwittingly set out a picnic for the bugs. |
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| Conventional electronics is based on controlling the flow of an electric charge using a transistor, a type of valve for electrons. |
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| Rather than X rays, the source of information is radiation emitted by an exquisitely fast vibration of electric charge within the molecule. |
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| If in an atom we substitute one or more particles by other particles of the same charge we obtain an exotic atom whose particles are held together due to the electric charge. |
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| In 2004, Applied released its revolutionary Applied Reflexion LK Ecmp system, which uses electric charge to remove copper with virtually no downforce on the wafer. |
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| Liberal Democrat Lembit Opik said officers have got too much discretion over when to use the weapons, which deliver a 50,000-volt electric charge. |
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| As predicted, because the framework's pillars were curved like bananas, they distorted the crystal and caused an uneven distribution of electric charge, Ward explains. |
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