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When you polish a window with a dry cloth on a dry day it becomes dusty why does this not happen on a wet day

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When glass is rubbed with a dry cloth, the friction creates charged static electricity; this in turn attracts small non charged particles of dust. The simplest way to put it, the dry cloth creates a static charge that attracts non charged dust particles.

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