electrostatic
Adjective
Meaning
Pertaining to electrostatics.
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Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.
As a result, there is an electrostatic attraction between the oxygen atom of one water molecule and the hydrogen of another (Fig. 2-lb), called a hydrogen bond.
an electrostatic generator produces high-voltage static electricity
Accelerated to high speeds, they can overcome this electrostatic repulsion and be forced close enough for the attractive nuclear force to be sufficiently strong to achieve fusion.
Advantages Unlike an electrostatic ion thruster which uses an electric field to accelerate only one species (positive ions), a PIT uses the Lorentz body force acting upon all charged particles within a quasi-neutral plasma.
Aggregation is due to the sum of the interaction forces between particles. citation citation If attractive forces (such as van der Waals forces) prevail over the repulsive ones (such as the electrostatic ones) particles aggregate in clusters.