Static Electricity and Water

What happens when an electrically charged object is brought near a stream of water? This is an easy experiment you can do yourself that shows that water molecules are polar! [Closed Captioned]

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[tnt1237]

can you do this with liquid nitrogen

[JeffersonLab]

@tnt1237 Nitrogen isn't polar, so it won't be deflected by a charged object.

[MescalineDaydreams]

@jeffersonlab: Does water temperature affect how much the water bends?

[JeffersonLab]

@MescalineDaydreams Probably. The hotter the water, the more the molecules are moving around and the more likely it is they can be knocked out of alignment. Try it and see!

[TheFindip]

@jeffersonlab would it work if you had two bags of hydrogen and mixed them with one bag of oxygen?

[JeffersonLab]

@TheFindip Not if it stayed as a mixture of hydrogen gas and oxygen gas (which is not a very safe mixture to have). It's the structure of the water molecule that makes this work. Just putting hydrogen molecules next to oxygen molecules doesn't do it.

[TechSupportx86]

Are you a wizard?

[AndromedaChao2]

Oxygen is more electronegative than hydrogen, so it tends to attract the covalent electrons toward itself much stronger than hydrogen. In a water molecule, the hydrogen atoms are partly positively charged because of the oxygen. The oxygen atom is partly negatively charged. This is what gives rise to the so-called hydrogen bonds between water molecules. A similar thing happens if a hydrogen atom is bonded to a nitrogen or fluorine atom.

[Thelondonbadger]

So thats why so many people are attracted to blonde hair!! LOL

[XxLegitCoDWizardxX]

Jefferson lab I really like your videos because i want to be a scientist when I grow up thanks for helping me towards becoming a scienctist

[JeffersonLab]

@landllymhar If it's polar, it will work.

[landllymhar]

i have i question does it do the same thing happen if u do that to a diffrent drink i wil have to try it