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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsElectricity is a mystery!
From a Bob Jones 4th grade "Science" textbook.
There's a link to some related information below.
Some of you have probably seen this already.
related links:
http://www.learningthings.com/customkititems.asp?kc=256339&eq=
http://www.bjupress.com/product/239145?path=70806&spot=1
http://books.google.com/books?id=a0DOPAAACAAJ&dq=%22science+student+text+grade+4%22&hl=en&ei=lAoyTLieN4L7lwexqZm-Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)There just aren't words to describe that.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)The people who write and publish these books should be jailed.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,757 posts)But don't worry, just stick this fork in that electrical outlet and God will show you the mysterious electricity.
ohiosmith
(24,262 posts)hunter
(38,320 posts)New Latin ēlectricus, "amber-like."
She could make your toes tingle, but when she was angry she was like lightning.
Her acolytes were called electrons, and they were everywhere, and there were many ways to bring them forth.
Twenty dollars in the red light district would usually do the trick.
MilesColtrane
(18,678 posts)charlie and algernon
(13,447 posts)Taverner
(55,476 posts)rurallib
(62,431 posts)klook
(12,158 posts)in My Life and Hard Times where he talks about his grandmother living in fear that electricity was "dripping invisibly all over the house" from the light sockets if a wall switch was left on.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,757 posts)was that there was a knot in the cord and the electricity couldn't get through.
klook
(12,158 posts)as long as it's a right-handed knot in the northern hemisphere and a left-handed knot in the southern hemisphere!
sakabatou
(42,160 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Dead_Parrot
(14,478 posts)I lost 20 IQ points just reading that.