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if you rub a ballon with wool or duster it can charge it negatively where do these extre charge come from?​

User Nitin Agarwal
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Answer:

The electrons come from the free electrons in wool which contains moisture or other forms of additives that creates impurity centers which causes the wool to be electrically conductive

Step-by-step explanation:

Wool which is mixed with certain substances, conducts electricity in a manner similar to the wool-water system that give rise to centers of impurities where electrical conduction takes place

The ability to conduct electricity is related to the presence of free electrons on a material. Therefore, when a balloon, which is an insulator, is rubbed with wool, some of the mobile electrons on wool, which is also an insulator without the presence of substances that aid its electrical conductivity, are transferred to the balloon, thereby making the balloon to be negatively charged