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on a trampoline if you run around enough, you will build up a electrical charge in your socks that eventually shocks you when you touch something afterwards correct? why does this happen? explain? is it a certain material in your socks? why does this happen!?!?!?!?

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the material that the bouncy part is made out of causes static electricity when your body causes friction against it.
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It is static electricity
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