Word: waterdrop
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Dates: during 1966-1966
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...German Physicist Philipp Lenard wrote a paper describing how the splashing of falling water charges the surrounding air with electricity. Recently, Welsh-born Physicist Edward Pierce decided to check out Lenard's theory that each waterdrop's skin of negative ions is stripped off and discharged into the atmosphere as the drop breaks up when it hits a surface. At first, Pierce haunted waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley. Suddenly he realized that "many of Lenard's experiments could be performed in a bathroom, and have indeed been constantly operating in American bathrooms...
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