The rubbed part of the balloon now has a negative charge. Objects made of rubber, such as the balloon, are electrical insulators, meaning that they resist electric charges flowing through them.

Protons have a positive charge. Electrons have a negative charge. The charge on the proton and electron are exactly the same size but opposite. Neutrons have no charge. Since opposite charges attract, ...

Objects can become positively charged or negatively charged. This is called static electricity. Find out more with BBC Bitesize. For students between 11 and 14.

All subatomic particles have intrinsic physical properties, such as mass, spin and charge. Charge is what comes into play when we talk about static shocks. It is either positive or negative. Each ...

Most electric charge is carried by the electrons and protons within an atom. Electrons are said to carry negative charge, while protons are said to carry positive charge, although these labels are ...

So as you can see, I'm getting minus 11 millivolts, which means that this object is negatively charged. All right, so let's do the crazy balloon experiment again.

Then, we basically become a magnet when we touch a negatively charged object or animal, and we feel the electric shock. This bolt of energy is more likely to happen in the winter because the air ...

One object becomes positively charged and one becomes negatively charged. If you are really curious, you can look up the two materials in the triboelectric series .

"Because like-charged objects in a vacuum are expected to repel regardless of whether the sign of the charge they carry is positive or negative, the expectation is that like-charged particles in ...

Then, we basically become a magnet when we touch a negatively charged object, or animal, and we feel the electric shock. This bolt of energy is more likely to happen in the winter because the air ...