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• n  the branch of physics that deals with static electricity

• The technology behind photocopying and the birth of Xerox is known as electrostatics -- exposing light onto a charged metal plate, dusting the plate with a powder that picks up an .

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• Robert Morse in Baltimore Sun
  In the future, there will be a wonderful set of technologies available - thin membranes that are ultra lightweight, electrostatics, adaptive intelligent systems that are based on neuroscience, aperture sizes that were previously unbelievable,... Goldin http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldin&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGdJ38MPvXJwXyx3DIg0WmhfdcuPQ Space Ref (press release) http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html%3Fpid%3D29914&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHf3LXSb4onwDsF3G8IBVKDYUF5mA Nov 24, 2008 32163 41520 electrostatics What's fun about this is that electrostatics is the one fundamental force you can play with fairly simply and fairly inexpensively," Morse tells his class. "Franklin introduced the term battery because he used a battery of Leyden jars, like...