You can watch static electricity in action by rubbing an inflated balloon against your hair. Your hair will actually stand on its end! It does this because each hair becomes charged, and they all repel one another.

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Mattie Moon

Social Studies

26 October, 10:30

You can watch static electricity in action by rubbing an inflated balloon against your hair. Your hair will actually stand on its end! It does this because each hair becomes charged, and they all repel one another.

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Kathleen · Answer 1

You can watch static electricity in action by rubbing an inflated balloon against your hair. Your hair will actually stand on its end! It does this because each hair becomes charged, and they all repel one another.

They create a negative charge against each hair, and the hair are basically trying to stay away from each other as much as possible. There is a creation of surplus electrons in the hair which causes them to stand away from each other.