What allows for static energy to form and build up in greater amounts in the winter?
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Static electricity forms when objects rub together. Electrons are transferred between their surfaces, with some materials pulling and other materials pushing, different material pairs produce static in different amounts.
Normally, high voltages dissipate through air. Wetter air carries the charge away faster. In the winter, the air is almost always way less humid, and so you get charge carried away much slower.
Friction. Summer means humidity and water and is the enemy of friction. Winter is dry and is just waiting for you to slide across the carpet in socks so it can give you a shock.
Because friction and electricity thrive in dry environments.
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