The Story of Electricity

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What novel was inspired by Mary Shelley's experiment with electricity and a dead man's body?

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Frankenstein

Front

What surrounds the nucleus of an atom in metals?

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Electrons

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Who was the great chemist that Michael Faraday attended a lecture of?

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Sir Humphry Davy

Front

What did the ancient Greeks use to create small shocks?

Back

Amber (which they called electron)

Front

What was Queen Elizabeth's reaction to static electricity?

Back

She marveled at its effect on feathers.

Front

What was the battery discovered through?

Back

The use of a pile of metals and acids.

Front

What is the term for the flow of electric charge?

Back

Electric current

Front

What is the basic unit of electric charge?

Back

Coulomb

Front

What device converts chemical energy into electrical energy?

Back

Battery

Front

What is static electricity?

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Electric charge that builds up on the surface of objects.