Explain how people walking on nylon carpets in dry weather may get a shock is they touch a radiator or a metal door knob?
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they get charged due to static friction
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I know they get charged but I want to know what the radiator has to do with it
I think it earths it but I'm not sure
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Because of static electricity discharge. Nylon is a good electrical insulator, thus the static electric which accrues at your body does not flow to ground. When you touch a metal thing which is connected to the ground, difference of electrical charge makes a static electric discharge. this makes you feel like shocked.
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