Electrostatic Cloth Rabbit Fur 10 x 6cm
Electrostatic Cloth Rabbit Fur 10 x 6cm
Student's name
First and last name, and class if you know it. This goes on the pack label.
Pickup available at Mega DC – Tweed Heads South
Usually ready in 24 hours
Real rabbit fur, 10 x 6cm - the other end of the triboelectric series
Genuine rabbit fur cloth, 100 x 60mm, for generating static charge on a rod. $8.20.
This is a real animal product. The supplier states it is made from rabbit fur and that the fur is chosen because it generates charge well. We are saying that plainly at the top rather than in the small print, because some schools and families will want to know before it arrives in a classroom. If that rules it out for you, the wool cloth does a similar job with the opposite sign of charge.
Why fur. Fur sits near the positive end of the triboelectric series and most plastics sit near the negative end, so rubbing a polythene rod with fur produces a strong, reliable charge - stronger than most other everyday materials.
Wool and fur together. With both cloths you can charge two rods oppositely and show attraction between them and repulsion between two like-charged rods. That is the whole of basic electrostatics in one lesson, and it needs two materials, not one.
10 x 6cm - small, and meant to be held rather than draped. It lives in the electrostatics box with the rods.