electrostatic induction

noun

, Electricity.

1. the electrification of a conductor when placed near a charged body.

Word History and Origins

Origin of electrostatic induction¹

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

To such sudden impulses the primary as well as the secondary are poor conductors, and therefore great differences of potential may be produced by electrostatic induction between adjacent points on the secondary.

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If now we substitute a closed vacuum tube for the metallic secondary s, the differences of potential produced in the tube by electrostatic induction from the primary are fully sufficient to excite portions of it; but as the points of certain differences of potential on the primary are not fixed, but are generally constantly changing in position, a luminous band is produced in the tube, apparently not touching the glass, as it should, if the points of maximum and minimum differences of potential were fixed on the primary.

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When the transference is effected by electrostatic induction, the potentials used are, of course, very high with frequencies obtainable from a machine.

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The secondary s is therefore acted upon by electrostatic induction, which is in such extreme cases of much greater importance than the electro-dynamic.

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The electrostatic induction is now much greater, because the closed secondary determines a greater flow of current through the primary and principally through that half of it which is connected to the induction coil.

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