Phrases with «electrostatic repulsion»

"Electrostatic repulsion" refers to a force that pushes two or more charged particles away from each other due to their opposite charges. It is like when two magnets with the same poles (either two north poles or two south poles) get close to each other and push apart instead of sticking together. Full definition

Sentences with «electrostatic repulsion»

  • One theory insists it's a «supersolid skin» capable of electrostatic repulsion (newscientist.com)
  • For instance, Badawy et al. showed that negatively charged silver nanoparticles did not overcome electrostatic repulsion barrier towards similar charged bacillus species [28]. (jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com)
  • Mark Fitzgerald and Tim Armstrong at the Measurement Standards Laboratory in Lower Hutt, New Zealand, counterbalanced the gravitational attraction in their apparatus with a delicate electrostatic repulsion, which they in turn measured precisely. (discovermagazine.com)
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