Imagine you place your finger on the electroscope disc and bring the negatively charged rod closer but do not let it touch the electroscope disc. Then you remove your finger from the electroscope disc and then remove the charged rod.              Observation: The gold leaves will stay separated after the rod and finger are removed   1.      Explain in detail why this happens. Only explain movement of electrons

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Imagine you place your finger on the electroscope disc and bring the negatively charged rod closer but do not let it touch the electroscope disc. Then you remove your finger from the electroscope disc and then remove the charged rod.

             Observation: The gold leaves will stay separated after the rod and finger are removed

 

1.      Explain in detail why this happens. Only explain movement of electrons

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