If you ever need to be a wizard , or just to try your handwriting at some magical tricks , you should learn the dark arts of … static electricity . Yep , with a bit of strategical contact with certain objects , you could easily fool kids and probably even trick your drunk acquaintance into thinking you could control objects through invisible forces .

Brusspupshowcases nine different tricks you’re able to pull out off with still electricity . Most simply just need the magic magnate that is a PVC pipage after it ’s been scratch with a towel ( to mess around with positively charged and negatively lodge materials ) .

Here are the thing you could easily do :

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Levitate light objects

Make an electroscope

check the trend of balloons

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Bend water

Make styrofoam ball trip the light fantastic around in aluminum foil

Control bubbles

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Move a stick

Make a can range around without touching it

Hover a styrofoam plate

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