Materials Required Hard rubber comb or balloon Fluorescent light bulb (not an incandescent bulb) How to do it Take the light bulb and comb into the dark room. Charge the comb by rubbing the comb on your hair or sweater. Make sure to build up a lot of charge for this experiment. Touch the charged part of the comb to the light bulb and ask the child to watch very carefully. You and your child should be able to see small sparks. Experiment with touching different parts of the bulb. Explanation When the charged comb is touched with the bulb, the electrons from the comb moved to the bulb, causing the small flash of light inside.
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