What is a ground? What is a happening to need a ground?
In: Physics
Grounding something means bringing it’s electrical charge back to being the same as the Earth /ground.
The Earth carries a negative electric charge of roughly 500 thousand Coulombs and when you stand on the Earth your charge is the same, hence you don’t feel it and there’s no flow of electricity between you and the planet. When something is ‘electrified’ it means it has a charge that is more or less than negative 500 thousand coulombs.
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