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Electrostatic field   /ɪlˌɛktroʊstˈætɪk fild/   Listen
Electrostatic field

noun
1.
Electric field associated with static electric charges.





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"Electrostatic field" Quotes from Famous Books



... by producing in it such a condition that an illuminating appliance may be placed anywhere and lighted without being electrically connected with anything. He has produced the required condition by creating in the room a powerful electrostatic field alternating very rapidly. He suspends two sheets of metal, each connected with one of the terminals of the coil. If an exhausted tube is carried anywhere between these sheets, or placed anywhere, it remains ...
— Steam Steel and Electricity • James W. Steele
... people know enough to stay out of the way of those things. Seriously, though, I didn't think the electrostatic curvature would be so slow to adjust. You see, when we build up our light-rate distortion field, other curvatures are affected. We get some gravity, some magnetic, and some electrostatic field distortion, too. You can see what happens when they don't leak their energy back ...
— Islands of Space • John W Campbell


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