Faraday ice bucket experiment
Faraday ice bucket experiment
[′far·ə‚dā ′īs ‚bək·ət ik‚spər·ə·mənt] (electricity)
Experiment in which one lowers a charged metal body into a pail and observes the effect on an electroscope attached to the pail, with and without contact between body and pail; the experiment shows that charge resides on a conductor's outside surface.
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