Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An electrical charge produced by friction between two objects that are nonconductive.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun electrical charge developed by rubbing objects together, suc as amber on cat fur.
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- noun
electricity produced by thetriboelectric effect
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek tribos, a rubbing, from trībein, to rub; see terə- in Indo-European roots + electricity.]
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tribo- + electricity
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Examples
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AFAIU triboelectricity occur when larger chunk of materials loose electrons from frictional processes.
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As for CMEs, I doubt ejection sputtering would give triboelectricity.
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fbharjo commented on the word triboelectricity
where the rub is
September 29, 2007