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Through a process not well understood, the grains lose some electrons owing to their jostling motion (“tribocharging”) in the hopper, and become positively charged.
Boing Boing 2007
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The exact opposite happens in tribocharging.
Solving the 250-year-old puzzle of how static electricity works Elise Cutts 2025
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