{"id":561995,"date":"2023-03-13T11:56:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=561995"},"modified":"2023-03-13T11:56:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T06:26:09","slug":"citizens-feel-small-shocks-as-dry-weather-triggers-static-electricity-in-bengaluru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/citizens-feel-small-shocks-as-dry-weather-triggers-static-electricity-in-bengaluru\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizens feel small shocks as dry weather triggers static electricity in Bengaluru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Many Bengalureans are reporting static shocks &#8211; while brushing hair, opening car doors, using a gas lighter or a metal tap or while simply rolling a plastic mat. Spooky as these sudden jolts can be, weathermen have a scientific explanation for the phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>A Prasad, senior scientist at Meteorological Centre, Bengaluru, attributes it to the dry weather. &#8220;The air is now relatively very dry and it promotes static electricity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Static electricity discharge occurs when two materials with different electrical permittivity, such as the skin and a piece of clothing or a blanket, come into contact and an exchange of electrons (charges) takes place, explains Dr Udaya Kumar, professor and chair, department of electrical engineering, Indian Institute of Science (IISc).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: Many Bengalureans are reporting static shocks &#8211; while brushing hair, opening car doors, using a gas lighter or a metal tap or while simply rolling a plastic mat. Spooky as these sudden jolts can be, weathermen have a scientific explanation for the phenomenon. A Prasad, senior scientist at Meteorological Centre, Bengaluru, attributes it to the dry weather. &#8220;The air is now relatively very dry and it promotes static electricity.&#8221; Static electricity discharge occurs when two materials with different electrical permittivity, such as the skin and a piece of clothing or a blanket, come into contact and an exchange of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}