Timeline for Why is static electricity called static?
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| Apr 10, 2015 at 13:42 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | @brhans: not everyone may agree here, but I'd say a capacitor is in the realm of static electricity. A battery is not, because it depends on electrochemical processes. Freeze a battery in liquid nitrogen, and the voltage will soon drop because the reactions largely cease – without them, the battery still keeps some static charge, but that's neglectable compared to the battery's operational charge. | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 8:13 | comment | added | iggy | Nobody said it's fair :) | |
| Jan 4, 2015 at 6:32 | comment | added | brhans | But then why is the charge in a capacitor or a battery not referred to as 'static electricity'? It also doesn't move... | |
| Jan 3, 2015 at 11:56 | history | migrated | from electronics.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Jan 3, 2015 at 11:20 | history | answered | iggy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |