Monday, 8 January 2007

觸電and 觸電and 觸電...

I think i'm super prone to static.
I get shocked super frequently.

More common is getting it with door knobs, car doors, another human.

There are some places where i'm ultimate prone in getting it.
E.g. Takashimaya - I never walk out of Takashimaya without getting 'shocked',
with either the glass door knob or even another human.
So be careful if you are with me in Takashimaya huh.

But now, i get it with the wall in my office!
i guess one of the reason is because the CPU is against the wall.
But i keep getting it and only i get it! So it's very disturbing -.-

Do u guys ever get static at any weird or specific places??

Some info to read if you're bored:

Whenever two different insulating surfaces touch together,
opposite charges within the two surfaces become separated.
Simply walking across certain rugs or plastic flooring will cause
your shoe soles to touch the dissimilar material of the rug.
This is enough to separate the negatives from the positives and create
imbalanced electric charges on the bottoms of your shoes.

"Static" electricity ( more correctly called "net electric charge" )

appears whenever the normal quantities of positive and negative
electricity in a substance are not perfectly equal.

Exactly how can this imbalance occur?
Whenever we walk, the soles of our shoes steal some negative charge from the floor.

We leave behind electrified positive footprints, and our bodies aquire an overall
imbalance of negatives. (Or sometimes vice versa with the negative and positive,
since polarity is determined by the type of shoe soles and the type of rug.)
After many footsteps, our bodies attain a high level of electric charge & a high voltage.
Body-voltage can easily rise to several thousand volts, and the next time

you touch someone else... ZAP! The imbalanced charge gets shared between you
and the other person.

Read more
here.