My water bottle is a leyden jar
Feb. 13th, 2012 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dsrtaoAt my desk at work, I keep an aluminum bottle for a ready source of water. Over time, I have coated the outside in green rubber bands, for no adequately explored reason.
Today, when emptying it into the stainless steel sink, I received a static shock. The circuit seemed to be made by the stream of water out of the bottle.
Today is a Monday. It has been sitting on my non-conducting desk for at least 2 days. The exposed surface is reasonably covered by insulators -- the rubber bands and the plastic screw-on top.
It's not quite a classic leyden jar, but pretty close.
Today, when emptying it into the stainless steel sink, I received a static shock. The circuit seemed to be made by the stream of water out of the bottle.
Today is a Monday. It has been sitting on my non-conducting desk for at least 2 days. The exposed surface is reasonably covered by insulators -- the rubber bands and the plastic screw-on top.
It's not quite a classic leyden jar, but pretty close.
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Date: 2012-02-13 08:39 pm (UTC)Not for any good reason. :-)
(It's better than my first thought: don't let the kids play with it: we wouldn't want to shock the children.)
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Date: 2012-02-13 08:59 pm (UTC)Yes, it important to not be leyden them astray.