I read that static electricity happens when two insulating materials run against each other and take the electrons out of atoms, and those electrons are what makes the static electricity. So my question is, what happens to those atoms that get their electrons removed, do they turn to different elements or something.
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No, atoms with electrons removed become ions, and they just gain more electrons from the environment later and become normal again or a different kind of ion. Most atoms are ions almost all the time.
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