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Electrons create a reaction

Nature Materials volume 7, pages 429–430 (2008)Cite this article

In an identification parade of chemical reactions using a single-electrode system, the charges generated by the mechanical rubbing of insulators are shown to be electrons rather than ions.

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Figure 1: Two chemical reactions observed using single-electrode electrochemistry: mechanically rubbed pieces of Teflon are placed in two different solutions.

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