what is the process of diverting unwanted electric charge into the soil?
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It is called grounding.  Since electricity takes the path of least resistance, a ground wire is attached to electrical equipement to divert this charge, from a short circuit as an example, directly to the ground where it will not cause damage.
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static grounding I believe
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you are almost right, electrical ground is allways relative to a higer potential source like a live wire and the current flows toward ground from the higer source, when you ar isolated (you have rubber shoes, you have a high resistance in the way of the current), there still a current flow, but it is so small (nano amperes) that you body cant feel it
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Dig a hole. \nBurn it. \nUse it for fertilizer.
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Yeah, okay.  So it works like this, \n\nYou get a shock when you touch a live wire, or, say, a charged conductor (like a sister rubbing her rubber soled slippers on the carpet) because that conductor has an excess of electrons.  These electrons (the electrical charge) are trying to get to the ground (you can think of the earth as the largest conductor around, it is therefore the best place for extra electrons to be, energetically speaking).\n\nSo if you stick a live wire into the ocean (the salt water is a good conductor) but it is so vast that the electrons will spread incredibly fast (going to the ground in every conceivable direction) so the charge will become really small really quickly.\n\nSo basically, if you're standing near where you stick the wire in, you'd be luck to electrocute yourself.  Though I wouldn't recommend trying.
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Whenever there is accumulation of charge in particles in the atmosphere, equal but opposite charge is accumulated in the Earth’s surface.\n\n If an object has a blunt surface and a sharp point, charge accumulates more in the sharp point than in the blunt surface.\n\nIn a bare ground if a man stands and another man is lying on the ground near by, the probability of striking of lightning is more for the man standing than that of a man lying. Note it is a probability.\n\nWhen you are in swimming in a pool, you are the highest point near the surroundings and all the charges induced accumulate only on your body and the probability of lightning to occur is at its high value.
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Generating static electricity.
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Basically, an earthworm "burrows into and helps aerate soil."\n\nThese links might be able to help you with your question.
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You have probably experienced static electricity. It's the charge that you create when you scuff your feet on a rug. Then when you touch a doorknob, you get a small shock. That's static electricity. \n\n    The reason why it works is a little more complicated. To start, you have to know that every object is made up of billions of tiny particles, called protons and electrons. These particles are so small they can only be seen with special microscopes. \n\n    Despite their small size, protons and electrons carry an electrical charge. Protons carry a "positive" charge, while electrons carry a "negative" energy charge. \n\n    Usually, the two different charges balance each other out, and nothing happens. But when two objects with like charges (all positive or all negative) come together, the charges repel and the objects move away from each other. Objects with opposite charges attract each other because the different charges want to enter a state of balance with each other. \n\n    Objects can get a negative charge by picking up electrons from other objects. For example, when your shoes scuff against the rug, your shoes are actually picking up electrons from the rug. The electrons fly over your body, giving you a negative charge. \n\n    Your new electrons fly over your body because they are looking for a positive charge. If you touch a metal doorknob, the electrons on your body will leap into the metal, attracted by the protons there. The transfer of electrons is actually a small electrical current, and produces the tiny electric shock you feel. \n\n    Lightning is like static electricity, except on a much bigger scale. Both lightning and static electricity happen because of the attraction between the opposite charges.
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It takes a very high voltage.  The earth is a conductor, but still has substantial resistance.  A high voltage source is connected: one terminal to the wire, one terminal to a metal stake in the ground.  When an animal touches the wire with its feet on the earth, current flows down the wire, into the skin of the animal, through the body down to the feet, through the feet into the earth, through the moist earth back to the metal stake, from the metal stake back into the power source ,completing the cicuit.  \n   Relatively low current, but high voltage gives a shock.
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they discharge when there is no longer anything charging them. they charge because a voltage is put across them, which causes charges to collect on opposite sides. when the voltage is removed (or short cicuited) there is nothing forcing the opposite charges to opposite sides. the capacitor discharges because opposites attract, and these opposite charges are now free to cancel each other out.
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The process of removing salt or other chemicals (from water or soil).
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This is a simple application of Coulomb's Law.\nThe Electric Field is simply given by the charge on the nucleus (26e) divided by 4*Pi*EpsilonNought*distance^2\nWhere e is 1.6*10^-19 Coulombs
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put an electric charge on each end, it needs to be a very strong charge though
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Electricity from trees
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b) The surface to be plated is charged negatively
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if +ve work is done on the charge by the field itself then the PE will decrease by conservation of energy.