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Question
Sometimes when you take off your nylon clothes, your hair stands on their end. Explain the observation.
Short/Brief Note
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Solution
When the nylon cloth gets rubbed with hairs then it acquires the negative charge because few free electrons get transferred from hairs to nylon and they get attracted towards nylon cloth so the hair stands on their end.
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