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What is ESD?

Friday, January 5th, 2007

ESD stands for Electrostatic Discharge.When two materials come into contact and then separate, static charges are developed. Electrons are transferred from one material to another material in a process called Triboelectric charging. Electrons leave their orbits around the nucleus to neighbouring orbits of another material that has a greater tendency to accept the electrons. A [...]

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